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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to meet the right kind of people?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile73.1%
2 Portugal67.9%
3 Turkiye62.9%
4 Republic of Korea61.3%
5 United States59.1%
6 Slovenia55.9%
7 Mexico55.6%
8 Poland53.1%
9 Italy52.2%
10 Ireland49.0%
11 Israel47.8%
12 Spain44.3%
13 Hungary43.6%
13 Slovakia43.6%
15 Switzerland43.0%
16 New Zealand40.5%
17 United Kingdom40.4%
18 Germany37.0%
19 Latvia34.3%
20 Australia32.5%
21 Czech Republic31.4%
22 Austria30.7%
23 Netherlands29.8%
24 Denmark23.7%
25 Norway22.6%
26 Finland21.6%
27 France21.2%
28 Japan 21.0%
29 Belgium18.8%
30 Sweden18.3%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.450750 X +7.737
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -65597.564599 X +71571.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.494800 X +82.844
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.077207 X +1.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.315014 X +15.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036