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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 family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark66.1%
2 United Kingdom54.1%
3 Norway52.9%
4 Sweden52.5%
5 Australia52.1%
6 Canada50.6%
7 United States48.4%
8 New Zealand47.4%
9 Republic of Korea44.8%
10 Netherlands44.0%
10 Slovakia44.0%
12 Austria42.2%
13 Ireland40.3%
14 Latvia35.7%
15 Hungary34.3%
16 Germany33.0%
16 Poland33.0%
18 Portugal31.2%
19 Switzerland28.1%
20 Czech Republic26.3%
21 Slovenia25.6%
22 Japan 22.5%
23 Chile21.5%
24 Israel21.0%
25 Finland19.3%
26 France18.4%
27 Spain16.5%

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 = 1.089030 X +6.360
Correlation coefficient (r)0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 78596.996817 X +18629.311
Correlation coefficient (r)0.416
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.173

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.300557 X +80.507
Correlation coefficient (r)0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.273051 X +1.693
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.359399 X +9.190
Correlation coefficient (r)0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018