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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 Switzerland12.8%
2 Latvia12.3%
3 Slovenia12.0%
4 Japan 9.2%
5 Hungary8.8%
6 Chile8.3%
7 France6.9%
8 Israel6.2%
9 Germany5.9%
10 Austria4.8%
11 United States4.3%
12 Czech Republic3.6%
13 Spain3.4%
14 Portugal3.2%
15 Ireland3.1%
16 Canada2.9%
17 New Zealand2.7%
18 Australia2.6%
19 United Kingdom2.2%
20 Finland1.9%
20 Poland1.9%
22 Slovakia1.8%
23 Netherlands1.7%
24 Norway1.6%
25 Denmark1.3%
26 Sweden0.9%
27 Republic of Korea0.0%

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 = -4.071613 X +6.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -117858.498373 X +53421.307
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -16.232035 X +81.378
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.435516 X +1.524
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 9.195837 X +10.011
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010