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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 religion (or being agnostic or atheist)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel 13.9%
2 Slovakia11.8%
3 Poland11.0%
3 United States11.0%
5 Ireland8.0%
6 New Zealand6.8%
7 Canada5.9%
8 Netherlands5.6%
9 Australia4.8%
10 France4.7%
11 Finland4.5%
12 Republic of Korea4.4%
13 Austria4.0%
13 Hungary4.0%
15 Norway3.9%
16 Portugal3.5%
17 Germany3.2%
18 Chile3.0%
18 Slovenia3.0%
18 United Kingdom3.0%
21 Latvia2.9%
22 Sweden2.3%
23 Denmark2.2%
24 Switzerland2.1%
25 Czech Republic2.0%
25 Spain2.0%
27 Japan1.7%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.777699 X +6.726
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 54746.188550 X +46821.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -18.819379 X +81.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 5.266565 X +1.253
Correlation coefficient (r)0.517
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.267

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -11.333079 X +11.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013