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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 citizenship"
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 Venezuela96.3%
2 Philippines96.1%
3 United States96.0%
4 Canada95.4%
5 South Africa93.2%
6 Portugal92.2%
7 Chile91.7%
8 Ireland91.6%
9 Poland91.3%
10 Austria90.3%
11 Australia89.9%
12 New Zealand89.5%
12 Norway89.5%
14 Bulgaria89.0%
15 Spain88.3%
16 Russian Federation87.8%
16 Uruguay87.8%
18 Republic of Korea87.7%
19 Israel87.2%
19 United Kingdom87.2%
21 Czech Republic86.7%
21 Japan 86.7%
23 France85.7%
24 Denmark85.1%
25 Finland84.1%
26 Slovenia82.0%
27 Sweden81.9%
28 Netherlands81.8%
29 Germany81.0%
30 Taiwan80.0%
31 Switzerland79.4%
32 Hungary77.4%
33 Latvia71.1%
34 Slovakia70.8%

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 = -1.485998 X +7.881
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2805.080027 X +43300.693
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -10.839364 X +88.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.302329 X +0.529
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -12.169189 X +21.407
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023