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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 belong to the country's religion"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel76.5%
2 Poland74.8%
3 United States65.8%
4 Portugal65.6%
5 Ireland57.8%
6 Chile54.1%
7 Canada54.0%
8 Austria 53.1%
9 Slovakia49.7%
10 Spain44.0%
11 Hungary43.2%
12 Republic of Korea41.0%
13 Switzerland39.3%
14 New Zealand37.4%
15 Australia36.9%
16 United Kingdom34.8%
17 Denmark33.2%
18 Slovenia32.5%
19 Czech Republic29.3%
20 Germany29.1%
21 Japan25.4%
22 Finland23.0%
23 Latvia22.5%
24 Norway20.3%
25 France17.5%
26 Sweden17.2%
27 Netherlands13.1%

Note
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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.727208 X +7.059
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -13673.717771 X +53433.849
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.184578 X +82.310
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.371598 X +1.441
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.962334 X +12.447
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068