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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 preferred political party, group, or movement"?
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 2.1%
2 Sweden1.4%
3 Japan1.1%
4 Germany0.9%
5 Canada0.7%
6 Australia0.6%
7 United States0.4%
8 United Kingdom0.3%
9 Republic of Korea0.2%

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 data9
Regression equation
Y = 11.613293 X +6.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -430812.311178 X +54265.950
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 118.089124 X +80.901
Correlation coefficient (r)0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 25.959215 X +1.282
Correlation coefficient (r)0.520
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.270

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -227.179003 X +13.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109