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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 social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 5.5%
2 Germany3.1%
4 United States2.1%
5 Japan1.8%
5 United Kingdom1.8%
8 Canada1.3%

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 = -0.455387 X +6.639
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -142979.797980 X +56519.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 12.289562 X +80.964
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 9.200337 X +1.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.700
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.490

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -32.601010 X +11.163
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033