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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 feel the country's nationality"
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 Hungary97.1%
2 Poland97.0%
3 Chile96.4%
4 Portugal93.4%
5 Australia92.8%
6 France92.0%
6 Republic of Korea92.0%
6 United States92.0%
9 Canada91.9%
10 New Zealand91.3%
11 Slovenia90.6%
12 Denmark90.0%
13 Latvia89.2%
14 Austria 88.5%
15 Czech Republic88.3%
15 Spain88.3%
17 Japan87.6%
18 Ireland87.4%
19 Israel87.0%
20 Finland86.9%
21 Norway84.3%
22 Netherlands83.2%
23 Sweden82.2%
24 United Kingdom79.4%
25 Switzerland75.2%
26 Slovakia73.8%
27 Germany73.7%

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 = -2.033172 X +8.551
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.269
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -127768.712103 X +160131.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -8.205608 X +87.826
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.600140 X +2.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 10.634618 X +1.101
Correlation coefficient (r)0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041