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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 preferred political party, group, or movement"?
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan6.5%
2 Spain3.3%
3 France2.1%
4 Finland1.9%
5 Israel1.4%
5 Sweden1.4%
5 Venezuela1.4%
8 Austria 1.3%
8 Hungary1.3%
10 Uruguay1.2%
11 Japan1.1%
11 Netherlands1.1%
11 New Zealand1.1%
14 Germany0.9%
15 Norway0.8%
16 Canada0.7%
16 Denmark0.7%
18 Australia0.6%
18 Chile0.6%
18 Czech Republic0.6%
18 Portugal0.6%
18 Russian Federation0.6%
18 South Africa0.6%
18 Switzerland0.6%
25 Ireland0.5%
25 Philippines0.5%
25 Slovakia0.5%
28 Poland0.4%
28 United States0.4%
30 Slovenia0.3%
30 United Kingdom0.3%
32 Republic of Korea0.2%
33 Bulgaria0.1%
34 Latvia0.0%

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.854981 X +6.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -20507.897870 X +40450.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 185.228767 X +77.576
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.033132 X +1.616
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -202.754404 X +15.173
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051