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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 preferred political party, group, or movement"?
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain3.3%
2 France2.1%
3 Finland1.9%
4 Israel1.4%
4 Sweden1.4%
6 Austria 1.3%
6 Hungary1.3%
8 Japan1.1%
8 Netherlands1.1%
8 New Zealand1.1%
11 Germany0.9%
12 Norway0.8%
13 Canada0.7%
13 Denmark0.7%
15 Australia0.6%
15 Chile0.6%
15 Czech Republic0.6%
15 Portugal0.6%
15 Switzerland0.6%
20 Ireland0.5%
20 Slovakia0.5%
22 Poland0.4%
22 United States0.4%
24 Slovenia0.3%
24 United Kingdom0.3%
26 Republic of Korea0.2%
27 Latvia0.0%

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 = 12.590239 X +6.650
Correlation coefficient (r)0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -144917.337516 X +50888.133
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 119.959749 X +79.873
Correlation coefficient (r)0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.119155 X +1.488
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -174.208595 X +12.035
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127