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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 current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan22.5%
2 Germany19.5%
5 United States15.5%
7 France 14.4%
8 United Kingdom13.4%
9 Canada11.8%

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 = -5.947245 X +7.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.819
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.671

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -148175.626214 X +76781.922
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 17.051426 X +78.524
Correlation coefficient (r)0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.124527 X +1.857
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.424
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.180

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 16.130253 X +7.705
Correlation coefficient (r)0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056