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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 "The part of country that you live in"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan7.3%
2 France 6.0%
3 Canada5.6%
4 Germany5.5%
6 United States3.8%
9 United Kingdom2.4%

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 = -10.286569 X +7.152
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -499002.659574 X +78251.302
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 62.632979 X +78.089
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -5.172872 X +1.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 44.228723 X +8.059
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078