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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 "The part of country that you live in"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary12.7%
2 Slovenia12.2%
3 Japan7.3%
4 Switzerland6.3%
5 Austria6.0%
5 France6.0%
7 Canada5.6%
8 Germany5.5%
9 Republic of Korea5.2%
9 Slovakia5.2%
11 Czech Republic5.1%
12 Netherlands5.0%
13 Poland4.4%
14 Ireland4.1%
14 Portugal4.1%
16 United States3.8%
17 Chile3.4%
18 Spain3.3%
19 Australia3.2%
20 Israel2.8%
20 Norway2.8%
22 Finland 2.7%
22 Sweden2.7%
24 Latvia2.6%
25 United Kingdom2.4%
26 New Zealand2.2%
27 Denmark1.9%

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 = -7.593237 X +7.127
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -274371.081831 X +60966.179
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -20.761402 X +81.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.703761 X +1.672
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 31.091540 X +8.962
Correlation coefficient (r)0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059