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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 nationality"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 16.1%
2 Japan15.3%
3 Canada10.1%
4 United Kingdom9.6%
5 Australia8.5%
6 Republic of Korea6.4%
7 Sweden5.9%
8 Germany4.7%
9 United States2.4%

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 data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.059913 X +6.960
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -177431.644278 X +66154.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 30.037409 X +79.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.481407 X +1.462
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -26.770303 X +14.202
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088