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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 Japan 9.2%
2 France6.9%
3 Germany5.9%
4 United States4.3%
5 Canada2.9%
6 Australia2.6%
7 United Kingdom2.2%
8 Sweden0.9%
9 Republic of Korea0.0%

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 data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.341488 X +6.898
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -94222.783583 X +54233.861
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.574047 X +81.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.877276 X +1.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -53.154445 X +13.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144