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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark97.5%
1 Netherlands97.5%
3 United States97.0%
4 Norway96.8%
5 Sweden96.3%
6 Hungary96.0%
7 Slovenia95.1%
8 Poland94.7%
8 Portugal94.7%
10 Germany94.1%
11 France94.0%
12 New Zealand93.2%
13 Switzerland92.8%
14 Canada92.7%
15 Australia92.0%
16 Czech Republic91.9%
17 Austria91.6%
18 United Kingdom90.8%
19 Republic of Korea87.8%
20 Chile 87.0%
21 Israel86.8%
22 Slovakia86.2%
23 Finland86.0%
24 Latvia85.8%
25 Spain84.2%
26 Japan78.4%
27 Ireland38.7%

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 = 0.531160 X +6.289
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -54510.900231 X +96757.990
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.244261 X +83.526
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.070212 X +1.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.593191 X +9.014
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003