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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 France20.2%
2 Germany18.6%
3 Sweden 13.8%
4 Japan11.6%
5 United Kingdom9.7%
6 United States8.6%
7 Canada8.0%
8 Republic of Korea7.9%
9 Australia6.4%

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 = 0.206928 X +6.667
Correlation coefficient (r)0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -83281.169493 X +60277.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.368263 X +81.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.545943 X +1.208
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -34.657934 X +15.888
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167