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Question: How long have you lived in the city, town or local community where you live now?
Choices: "Since birth" "Since the year ___________"
Data: % of "Since the year ___________" (that is, those who do not live since birth)
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 89.7%
2 Australia88.5%
3 United Kingdom76.6%
4 Japan70.9%
5 Canada69.1%
6 Germany61.7%
7 Italy35.5%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.852038 X +6.032
Correlation coefficient (r)0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 31515.401071 X +24185.890
Correlation coefficient (r)0.521
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.271

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.180565 X +82.302
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.904491 X +0.886
Correlation coefficient (r)0.795
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.632

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 10.291264 X +1.761
Correlation coefficient (r)0.695
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.483