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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 lived in the country for most of one's life"
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 Chile90.8%
2 Portugal88.5%
3 Spain86.7%
4 Israel83.4%
4 Poland83.4%
6 Czech Republic81.9%
7 United States81.1%
8 Latvia81.0%
9 Canada79.6%
10 Ireland77.8%
11 Austria77.6%
12 New Zealand77.0%
13 Hungary76.6%
14 Japan 73.7%
15 Denmark73.2%
16 Slovenia72.9%
17 United Kingdom72.7%
18 Norway72.3%
19 France70.7%
20 Australia68.5%
20 Republic of Korea68.5%
22 Germany67.5%
23 Switzerland66.3%
24 Finland65.2%
25 Slovakia63.9%
26 Netherlands56.2%
27 Sweden55.8%

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 = -2.273637 X +8.460
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -87471.666419 X +113116.656
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -9.790064 X +87.917
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.271798 X +1.388
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -10.830281 X +18.515
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081