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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 belong to the country's religion"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines84.4%
2 South Africa79.0%
3 Israel76.5%
4 Bulgaria76.2%
5 Poland74.8%
6 Venezuela71.3%
7 United States65.8%
8 Portugal65.6%
9 Russian Federation58.3%
10 Ireland57.8%
11 Chile54.1%
12 Canada54.0%
13 Austria53.1%
14 Slovakia49.7%
15 Spain44.0%
16 Hungary43.2%
17 Republic of Korea41.0%
18 Switzerland39.3%
19 New Zealand37.4%
20 Australia36.9%
21 United Kingdom34.8%
22 Denmark33.2%
23 Slovenia32.5%
24 Czech Republic29.3%
25 Germany29.1%
26 Uruguay28.8%
27 Taiwan26.1%
28 Japan 25.4%
29 Finland23.0%
30 Latvia22.5%
31 Norway20.3%
32 France17.5%
33 Sweden17.2%
34 Netherlands13.1%

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 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.528143 X +7.272
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -45205.776168 X +61011.292
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -14.855515 X +85.346
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.566
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.320
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.873249 X +1.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.461524 X +12.831
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033