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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 "Your race/ethnic background"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 20.2%
2 Germany18.6%
4 Japan11.6%
5 United Kingdom9.7%
6 United States8.6%
7 Canada8.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.727476 X +6.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -100732.435743 X +65679.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 9.875471 X +80.021
Correlation coefficient (r)0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.490301 X +1.323
Correlation coefficient (r)0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -18.684658 X +12.704
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130