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Question: Do you agree that your country would be a better country if religion had less influence?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia56.8%
2 Israel50.9%
3 Chile50.0%
4 Ireland47.5%
5 Poland42.7%
6 Philippines 38.2%
7 Spain36.6%
8 Portugal35.0%
9 Cyprus31.8%
9 United Kingdom31.8%
11 Italy30.1%
12 Russian Federation30.0%
13 Germany27.5%
14 Slovakia26.8%
15 Australia26.5%
16 France24.9%
17 Canada24.5%
18 Netherlands22.4%
18 Norway22.4%
20 Denmark19.9%
21 Sweden18.9%
22 Austria17.0%
23 Bulgaria16.6%
24 Hungary16.4%
25 Czech Republic16.1%
26 United States15.3%
27 Switzerland14.1%
28 Japan13.9%
29 New Zealand13.7%
30 Latvia7.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.647879 X +6.857
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -31722.878130 X +51614.023
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.192844 X +79.578
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.798711 X +1.380
Correlation coefficient (r)0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -12.605885 X +15.515
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110