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Question: In general, which in the following list is most important to you in describing who you are?
Choices: "Your current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)" "Your race/ethnic background" "Your gender (that is, being a man/woman)" "Your age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)" "Your religion (or being agnostic or atheist)" "Your preferred political party, group, or movement"? "Your nationality" "Your family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)" "Your social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)" "The part of country that you live in"
Data: % of "Your nationality"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland22.2%
2 Israel17.8%
3 France16.1%
3 Ireland16.1%
5 Japan15.3%
6 Poland14.0%
7 Portugal12.8%
8 Chile12.5%
9 Slovenia10.5%
10 Canada10.1%
11 New Zealand10.0%
12 United Kingdom9.6%
13 Norway9.3%
14 Czech Republic8.7%
15 Australia8.5%
16 Austria 7.5%
17 Spain7.1%
18 Republic of Korea6.4%
19 Sweden5.9%
20 Switzerland5.8%
21 Denmark5.6%
21 Netherlands5.6%
23 Germany4.7%
24 Slovakia4.0%
25 United States2.4%
26 Latvia1.2%
27 Hungary0.0%

Note
Others/ 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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 2.215298 X +6.560
Correlation coefficient (r)0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 16503.394800 X +48036.149
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 21.159788 X +79.013
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.626938 X +1.366
Correlation coefficient (r)0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -15.328140 X +11.859
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058