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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan31.9%
2 Czech Republic26.9%
3 Russian Federation25.8%
4 Finland25.2%
5 Switzerland23.7%
6 Latvia22.7%
7 Spain22.6%
8 Japan22.5%
9 Bulgaria 22.2%
10 Uruguay21.1%
11 Chile20.2%
12 Germany19.5%
13 Republic of Korea19.2%
14 Venezuela18.8%
15 Austria18.3%
15 Slovenia18.3%
17 Poland17.8%
18 Israel17.4%
19 Slovakia16.8%
20 Australia15.8%
21 Ireland15.6%
22 Philippines15.5%
22 United States15.5%
24 Sweden14.9%
25 France14.4%
26 New Zealand14.1%
27 Hungary14.0%
28 South Africa13.9%
29 Netherlands13.7%
30 Portugal13.5%
31 United Kingdom13.4%
32 Denmark11.9%
33 Canada11.8%
34 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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.768079 X +7.108
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -140193.283722 X +65771.530
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -10.081699 X +81.004
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.415686 X +1.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 31.240196 X +7.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054