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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 be able to speak the country's language"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary96.9%
2 Norway96.0%
3 Sweden95.8%
4 Netherlands95.5%
5 Czech Republic94.5%
6 Slovenia94.3%
7 Austria93.0%
7 United States93.0%
9 Philippines92.7%
10 Slovakia92.5%
11 Poland91.9%
12 Bulgaria90.1%
13 Germany89.1%
14 United Kingdom88.4%
15 Australia87.9%
16 Latvia87.8%
16 New Zealand87.8%
18 Italy85.7%
19 Spain82.0%
20 Russian Federation81.8%
21 Canada80.9%
22 Japan 70.4%
23 Ireland42.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 215 countries.
Source
ISSP 1995

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.405462 X +6.233
Correlation coefficient (r)0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -78446.091346 X +111119.473
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.340
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -9.551940 X +87.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.367468 X +1.278
Correlation coefficient (r)0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.080555 X +10.137
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000