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Question: In general, which in the following list is most important to you in describing who you are?
Choices: "Your current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)" "Your race/ethnic background" "Your gender (that is, being a man/woman)" "Your age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)" "Your religion (or being agnostic or atheist)" "Your preferred political party, group, or movement"? "Your nationality" "Your family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)" "Your social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)" "The part of country that you live in"
Data: % of "The part of country that you live in"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary12.7%
2 Slovenia12.2%
3 Venezuela11.5%
4 Taiwan9.0%
5 Japan 7.3%
5 Russian Federation7.3%
7 Switzerland6.3%
8 Austria6.0%
8 France6.0%
8 Uruguay6.0%
11 Canada5.6%
12 Germany5.5%
13 Republic of Korea5.2%
13 Slovakia5.2%
15 Czech Republic5.1%
16 Netherlands5.0%
17 Poland4.4%
18 Ireland4.1%
18 Portugal4.1%
20 United States3.8%
21 Chile3.4%
22 Spain3.3%
23 Australia3.2%
23 South Africa3.2%
25 Philippines3.0%
26 Bulgaria2.9%
27 Israel2.8%
27 Norway2.8%
29 Finland2.7%
29 Sweden2.7%
31 Latvia2.6%
32 United Kingdom2.4%
33 New Zealand2.2%
34 Denmark1.9%

Note
Others/ 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 = -6.920954 X +6.940
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -272342.622170 X +54594.743
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -26.413168 X +79.942
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.199532 X +1.721
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 15.572284 X +10.051
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007