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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Astrology - the study of star signs - has some scientific truth"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia87.6%
2 Bulgaria83.3%
3 Russian Federation82.5%
4 Czech Republic76.9%
5 Hungary72.8%
6 Philippines69.5%
7 Germany56.4%
7 Poland56.4%
9 Norway55.5%
10 Ireland54.0%
11 United States52.7%
12 Israel51.4%
13 Netherlands49.0%
14 New Zealand48.2%
15 Spain47.0%
16 United Kingdom45.5%
17 Japan 45.2%
18 Canada44.9%
19 Australia36.3%
20 Italy35.0%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.583928 X +7.516
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -83489.029306 X +92092.866
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -21.716201 X +91.703
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.709
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.503

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.489322 X +1.389
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 8.940910 X +4.448
Correlation coefficient (r)0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112