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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 current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic26.9%
2 Finland25.2%
3 Switzerland 23.7%
4 Latvia22.7%
5 Spain22.6%
6 Japan22.5%
7 Chile20.2%
8 Germany19.5%
9 Republic of Korea19.2%
10 Austria18.3%
10 Slovenia18.3%
12 Poland17.8%
13 Israel17.4%
14 Slovakia16.8%
15 Australia15.8%
16 Ireland15.6%
17 United States15.5%
18 Sweden14.9%
19 France14.4%
20 New Zealand14.1%
21 Hungary14.0%
22 Netherlands13.7%
23 Portugal13.5%
24 United Kingdom13.4%
25 Denmark11.9%
26 Canada11.8%
27 Norway10.4%

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 = -1.700788 X +7.061
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -181426.984987 X +79496.602
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -7.374647 X +81.903
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.002167 X +1.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 14.619957 X +7.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035