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Question: How close do you feel to your county?
Choices: "Very close" "Close" "Not very close" "Not close at all"
Data: % of "Very close" "Close"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain90.5%
2 Japan 89.0%
3 Austria88.9%
4 Hungary85.7%
5 Ireland81.1%
6 Italy80.1%
7 Norway79.1%
8 Slovenia78.5%
9 Australia75.0%
10 Canada74.4%
11 Slovakia73.3%
12 New Zealand70.7%
13 Latvia69.2%
14 Czech Republic68.6%
15 Germany68.0%
16 Sweden66.0%
17 Poland63.8%
18 United States62.1%
19 United Kingdom50.6%
20 Netherlands49.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.381157 X +7.721
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -11338.778941 X +55590.019
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 7.048027 X +75.041
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.571969 X +1.966
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.129236 X +11.034
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002