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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%
2 Republic of Korea3.1%
4 United States2.1%
5 Japan1.8%
5 United Kingdom1.8%
7 Australia1.5%
8 Canada1.3%
9 Sweden0.9%

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 = -12.036582 X +6.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -385177.653076 X +59610.387
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.042478 X +82.123
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.765876 X +1.463
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.599943 X +11.768
Correlation coefficient (r)0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000