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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 family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom54.1%
4 Canada50.6%
5 United States48.4%
7 Germany33.0%
8 Japan22.5%
9 France 18.4%

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 = 1.285081 X +6.141
Correlation coefficient (r)0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 57660.493687 X +30987.280
Correlation coefficient (r)0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.162547 X +83.993
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.498
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.248

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.084881 X +1.545
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.526238 X +10.892
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007