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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 religion (or being agnostic or atheist)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel13.9%
2 Slovakia11.8%
3 Poland11.0%
3 United States11.0%
5 Ireland8.0%
6 New Zealand6.8%
7 Canada5.9%
8 Netherlands5.6%
9 Australia4.8%
10 France4.7%
11 Finland4.5%
12 Republic of Korea4.4%
13 Austria 4.0%
13 Hungary4.0%
15 Norway3.9%
16 Portugal3.5%
17 Germany3.2%
18 Chile3.0%
18 Slovenia3.0%
18 United Kingdom3.0%
21 Latvia2.9%
22 Sweden2.3%
23 Denmark2.2%
24 Switzerland2.1%
25 Czech Republic2.0%
25 Spain2.0%
27 Japan1.7%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.777699 X +6.726
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 56276.891507 X +45090.135
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -28.714162 X +82.056
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.907951 X +1.345
Correlation coefficient (r)0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -11.333079 X +11.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013