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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to have the country's ancestry"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland84.7%
2 Portugal83.6%
3 Chile81.7%
4 Ireland81.4%
5 Hungary79.2%
6 Spain79.1%
7 Republic of Korea73.3%
8 Japan 72.1%
9 Czech Republic70.2%
10 New Zealand60.0%
11 Denmark58.3%
12 Austria57.6%
13 United States55.2%
14 Norway54.6%
14 Slovenia54.6%
16 Canada54.5%
17 Finland52.4%
18 Germany51.5%
18 United Kingdom51.5%
20 Israel50.8%
21 Slovakia50.6%
22 France49.2%
23 Switzerland40.3%
24 Australia37.7%
25 Sweden30.0%
26 Netherlands22.6%

Note
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 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -1.571219 X +7.710
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -1.696863 X +7.771
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -1.870710 X +7.891
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -62075.897019 X +89147.473
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -2.475792 X +83.167
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.607224 X +1.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.132338 X +10.390
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000