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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 age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Japan7.0%
3 Germany5.7%
4 France 5.6%
7 United Kingdom3.5%
7 United States3.5%
9 Canada3.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -15.203212 X +7.344
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.832
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.692

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -631840.305660 X +82603.968
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 78.811035 X +77.566
Correlation coefficient (r)0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.574796 X +1.635
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 6.446056 X +10.011
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001