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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to have been born in the country"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States77.4%
3 Japan76.5%
4 Canada75.1%
5 United Kingdom73.4%
6 France 61.1%
7 Germany60.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.616033 X +7.062
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 46284.004140 X +20117.946
Correlation coefficient (r)0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -3.465580 X +83.731
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.030516 X +2.241
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 18.846956 X -2.994
Correlation coefficient (r)0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289