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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:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines95.0%
2 Venezuela87.6%
3 Poland84.7%
4 South Africa83.7%
5 Portugal83.6%
6 Chile81.7%
7 Ireland81.4%
8 Hungary79.2%
9 Spain79.1%
10 Russian Federation76.5%
11 Republic of Korea73.3%
12 Japan 72.1%
13 Czech Republic70.2%
14 Uruguay69.2%
15 New Zealand60.0%
16 Denmark58.3%
17 Austria57.6%
18 United States55.2%
19 Norway54.6%
19 Slovenia54.6%
21 Canada54.5%
22 Finland52.4%
23 Germany51.5%
23 United Kingdom51.5%
25 Taiwan51.4%
26 Israel50.8%
27 Slovakia50.6%
28 France49.2%
29 Switzerland40.3%
30 Australia37.7%
31 Sweden30.0%
32 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 206 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -2.299261 X +8.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.716
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.513
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -84832.572160 X +95324.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -16.191771 X +89.224
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.197921 X +1.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.322073 X +10.990
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000