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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 have been born in the country"
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 Portugal90.8%
2 Chile 89.7%
3 Spain88.4%
4 Poland87.8%
5 Ireland84.7%
6 Republic of Korea80.5%
7 Czech Republic78.5%
8 United States77.4%
9 New Zealand76.9%
10 Japan76.5%
11 Austria75.3%
12 Canada75.1%
13 United Kingdom73.4%
14 Hungary71.2%
14 Latvia71.2%
16 Finland69.2%
17 Slovenia68.3%
18 Denmark67.5%
19 Norway64.8%
20 Israel62.0%
21 France61.1%
22 Germany60.2%
22 Slovakia60.2%
24 Australia58.8%
25 Switzerland52.0%
26 Netherlands49.2%
27 Sweden48.2%

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 = -2.126960 X +8.277
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -76097.166684 X +101990.686
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -5.162857 X +84.288
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.067118 X +2.350
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.166229 X +11.270
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002