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Question: How much confidence do you have in churches and religious organizations?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines92.6%
2 Uruguay 83.6%
3 Poland80.7%
4 Portugal79.9%
5 Chile79.1%
6 Cyprus75.1%
7 Syrian Arab Republic72.5%
8 Italy72.1%
9 Latvia71.9%
10 Ireland70.8%
11 Hungary69.8%
12 Denmark69.1%
13 Australia68.8%
14 New Zealand68.1%
15 Slovakia67.2%
16 Norway66.2%
17 Russian Federation66.1%
18 Canada65.6%
19 Spain62.8%
20 Netherlands61.9%
21 United States61.3%
22 Austria59.6%
23 Switzerland55.7%
24 Slovenia54.9%
25 Bulgaria52.3%
26 Israel52.1%
27 Germany49.8%
28 France48.7%
29 Czech Republic45.4%
30 Japan27.1%

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 data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.928548 X +7.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -50080.716835 X +73674.073
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.635523 X +86.439
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.376333 X +1.404
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.035159 X +17.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049