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Question: How often do you visit a holy place for religious reasons such as going to shrine/temple/church/mosque? Please do not count attending regular religious services at your usual place of worship, if you have one.
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month or more"
Data: % of "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month or more"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sri Lanka93.6%
2 Venezuela74.4%
3 Tanzania67.0%
4 Cyprus62.6%
5 Philippines62.2%
6 Indonesia61.4%
7 Chile59.1%
8 Portugal54.4%
9 South Africa51.7%
10 Italy51.4%
11 Taiwan48.3%
12 Israel46.7%
12 Kenya46.7%
14 Switzerland42.4%
15 Turkiye42.3%
16 Belgium41.3%
17 Spain38.8%
18 Dominican Republic36.9%
19 Croatia35.0%
20 Mexico33.9%
21 France32.8%
22 Australia30.0%
23 Republic of Korea29.3%
24 Slovenia29.2%
25 Finland 28.7%
26 United States27.0%
27 Ireland26.8%
28 United Kingdom25.3%
29 Czech Republic24.0%
29 Japan24.0%
31 Hungary23.8%
32 Netherlands22.9%
33 Denmark22.6%
34 Sweden22.4%
35 Norway19.9%
36 New Zealand19.2%
37 Austria18.5%
38 Slovakia18.3%
38 Uruguay18.3%
40 Poland16.2%
41 Latvia10.0%
42 Ukraine8.8%
43 Germany7.7%
44 Russian Federation6.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.522974 X +7.198
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -50041.026532 X +51494.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -7.113082 X +80.662
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.619410 X +1.222
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -16.890461 X +18.183
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253