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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to be able to speak the country's language"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary96.9%
2 Norway96.0%
3 Sweden95.8%
4 Netherlands95.5%
5 Czech Republic94.5%
6 Slovenia94.3%
7 Austria 93.0%
7 United States93.0%
9 Slovakia92.5%
10 Poland91.9%
11 Germany89.1%
12 United Kingdom88.4%
13 Australia87.9%
14 Latvia87.8%
14 New Zealand87.8%
16 Italy85.7%
17 Spain82.0%
18 Canada80.9%
19 Japan70.4%
20 Ireland42.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.473128 X +6.297
Correlation coefficient (r)0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -75286.987078 X +112997.318
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9.056285 X +88.104
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.143965 X +1.422
Correlation coefficient (r)0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.992477 X +6.723
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030