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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 race/ethnic background"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile24.4%
2 Portugal21.9%
3 France20.2%
4 Germany18.6%
5 Czech Republic15.1%
6 Spain15.0%
7 Sweden13.8%
8 Norway13.6%
9 New Zealand11.7%
10 Japan 11.6%
11 Slovakia10.8%
12 Poland10.6%
13 Slovenia10.3%
14 Austria10.1%
15 Finland10.0%
16 United Kingdom9.7%
17 Switzerland9.4%
18 Israel9.3%
19 United States8.6%
20 Ireland8.5%
21 Latvia8.1%
22 Canada8.0%
23 Republic of Korea7.9%
24 Hungary7.6%
25 Australia6.4%
26 Netherlands6.0%
27 Denmark5.4%

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 = -3.041452 X +7.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -167373.713556 X +67286.305
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.172899 X +80.251
Correlation coefficient (r)0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.381751 X +1.635
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -23.077501 X +13.113
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110