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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 belong to the country's religion"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States65.8%
2 Canada54.0%
3 Republic of Korea41.0%
4 Australia36.9%
5 United Kingdom34.8%
6 Germany29.1%
7 Japan25.4%
8 France 17.5%
9 Sweden17.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.114282 X +6.732
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 48359.010911 X +33294.451
Correlation coefficient (r)0.549
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.301

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.310445 X +85.239
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.360815 X +1.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.427517 X +9.197
Correlation coefficient (r)0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083