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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 social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands6.5%
2 Hungary6.1%
3 France5.5%
4 Israel4.9%
5 Latvia4.1%
6 Spain4.0%
7 Czech Republic3.4%
8 Germany3.1%
8 Republic of Korea3.1%
10 Austria 2.9%
11 Poland2.6%
12 Finland2.4%
13 Portugal2.3%
14 United States2.1%
15 Chile2.0%
16 Switzerland1.9%
17 Japan1.8%
17 United Kingdom1.8%
19 Denmark1.6%
19 Slovenia1.6%
21 Australia1.5%
22 Canada1.3%
22 Norway1.3%
24 New Zealand1.1%
25 Slovakia1.0%
26 Sweden0.9%
27 Ireland0.7%

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 = -4.766251 X +6.892
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -509212.687682 X +61392.855
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -44.219896 X +81.790
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.538720 X +1.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -10.736676 X +10.726
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003