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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 current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 22.5%
2 Germany19.5%
3 Republic of Korea19.2%
4 Australia15.8%
5 United States15.5%
6 Sweden14.9%
7 France14.4%
8 United Kingdom13.4%
9 Canada11.8%

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 = -8.390094 X +8.062
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.677
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.458

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -203211.315980 X +83771.293
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 20.028923 X +78.640
Correlation coefficient (r)0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.271511 X +2.202
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 44.243312 X +4.626
Correlation coefficient (r)0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130