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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 = -1.870710 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 = -61766.073809 X +87084.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -3.702040 X +83.403
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.502336 X +1.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.986056 X +10.808
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003