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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 been born in the country"
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 Philippines95.6%
2 Venezuela95.0%
3 South Africa91.6%
4 Portugal90.8%
5 Bulgaria89.9%
6 Chile89.7%
7 Spain88.4%
8 Uruguay88.3%
9 Poland87.8%
10 Russian Federation84.9%
11 Ireland84.7%
12 Republic of Korea80.5%
13 Czech Republic78.5%
14 United States77.4%
15 New Zealand76.9%
16 Japan 76.5%
17 Austria75.3%
18 Canada75.1%
19 United Kingdom73.4%
20 Hungary71.2%
20 Latvia71.2%
22 Finland69.2%
23 Slovenia68.3%
24 Denmark67.5%
25 Taiwan66.1%
26 Norway64.8%
27 Israel62.0%
28 France61.1%
29 Germany60.2%
29 Slovakia60.2%
31 Australia58.8%
32 Switzerland52.0%
33 Netherlands49.2%
34 Sweden48.2%

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 = -2.948877 X +8.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -111948.645834 X +124178.311
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -21.922862 X +95.013
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.121294 X +1.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.176272 X +10.686
Correlation coefficient (r)0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000