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Question: How long have you lived in the city, town or local community where you live now?
Choices: "Since birth" "Since the year ___________"
Data: % of "Since the year ___________" (that is, those who do not live since birth)
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland93.9%
2 France89.7%
3 Australia88.5%
4 Chile83.2%
5 Denmark82.0%
6 Israel79.8%
7 United Kingdom76.6%
8 New Zealand75.9%
9 Japan 70.9%
10 Canada69.1%
11 Hungary68.3%
12 Norway61.9%
13 Germany61.7%
14 Slovenia60.0%
15 Poland58.9%
16 Latvia58.4%
17 Austria52.8%
18 Czech Republic49.7%
19 Spain38.2%
20 Italy35.5%

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 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.953993 X +6.088
Correlation coefficient (r)0.364
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 55247.711874 X +7823.875
Correlation coefficient (r)0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.060873 X +78.009
Correlation coefficient (r)0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.888295 X +1.011
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.552053 X +7.775
Correlation coefficient (r)0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021