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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 feel the country's nationality"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary98.5%
2 Poland97.4%
3 Latvia96.1%
4 Ireland95.6%
5 Slovakia94.6%
6 Australia94.4%
7 Czech Republic92.6%
8 Austria92.3%
9 Slovenia91.8%
10 Italy91.6%
11 New Zealand90.4%
11 Norway90.4%
13 Japan89.0%
14 Spain88.9%
15 Canada87.5%
16 United States86.7%
17 Sweden 86.6%
18 Netherlands82.1%
19 United Kingdom78.8%
20 Germany75.5%

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 = -2.511896 X +8.972
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -89112.134979 X +127527.166
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -23.419022 X +101.286
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.032492 X +1.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 12.515865 X -1.062
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068