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Question: Do you think that churches and religious organizations in this country have too much power or too little power?
Choices: "Far too much power" "Too much power" "About the right amount of power" "Too little power" "Far too little power"
Data: % of "Far too much power" "Too much power"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea60.9%
2 Italy57.1%
3 Japan 46.6%
4 Australia44.2%
5 Germany37.9%
6 United Kingdom37.8%
7 United States32.7%
8 France27.9%
9 Sweden25.1%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.980537 X +7.962
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.734
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.539

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -65900.877817 X +76579.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.651
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.424

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.286759 X +78.914
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.168642 X +2.361
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.911
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.830

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 14.389468 X +8.292
Correlation coefficient (r)0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080