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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 "The part of country that you live in"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 7.3%
2 France6.0%
3 Canada5.6%
4 Germany5.5%
5 Republic of Korea5.2%
6 United States3.8%
7 Australia3.2%
8 Sweden2.7%
9 United Kingdom2.4%

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 = -17.239834 X +7.490
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.687
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.472

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -466141.733452 X +72178.011
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 47.892550 X +79.692
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.029979 X +1.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 33.322944 X +10.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018