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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 race/ethnic background"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan9.2%
2 France6.9%
3 Germany5.9%
4 United States4.3%
5 Canada2.9%
7 United Kingdom2.2%

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 = -9.619899 X +7.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.862
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.743

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -302123.477084 X +68613.295
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 37.777993 X +79.306
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.362406 X +1.585
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 33.678205 X +8.553
Correlation coefficient (r)0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104