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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland80.7%
2 Portugal79.9%
3 Chile79.1%
4 Italy72.1%
5 Latvia71.9%
6 Ireland70.8%
7 Hungary69.8%
8 Denmark69.1%
9 Australia68.8%
10 New Zealand68.1%
11 Slovakia67.2%
12 Norway66.2%
13 Canada65.6%
14 Spain62.8%
15 Netherlands61.9%
16 United States61.3%
17 Austria59.6%
18 Switzerland55.7%
19 Slovenia54.9%
20 Israel52.1%
21 Germany49.8%
22 France48.7%
23 Czech Republic45.4%
24 Japan 27.1%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.726567 X +7.252
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -27273.084983 X +63844.490
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7.527003 X +85.419
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.548001 X +1.924
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -6.219060 X +16.330
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045