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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 age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea8.9%
2 Japan7.0%
3 Germany5.7%
4 France5.6%
5 Australia4.5%
5 Sweden 4.5%
7 United Kingdom3.5%
7 United States3.5%
9 Canada3.0%

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 = -16.699193 X +7.548
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.755
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.570

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -554670.357555 X +79053.189
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.740
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.548

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 63.033449 X +78.675
Correlation coefficient (r)0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.132641 X +2.076
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 137.665513 X +4.785
Correlation coefficient (r)0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393