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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 have been born in the country"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal90.8%
2 Chile89.7%
3 Spain88.4%
4 Poland87.8%
5 Ireland84.7%
6 Republic of Korea80.5%
7 Czech Republic78.5%
8 United States77.4%
9 New Zealand76.9%
10 Japan76.5%
11 Austria75.3%
12 Canada75.1%
13 United Kingdom73.4%
14 Hungary71.2%
14 Latvia71.2%
16 Finland69.2%
17 Slovenia68.3%
18 Denmark 67.5%
19 Norway64.8%
20 Israel62.0%
21 France61.1%
22 Germany60.2%
22 Slovakia60.2%
24 Australia58.8%
25 Switzerland52.0%
26 Netherlands49.2%
27 Sweden48.2%

Note
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 = -2.668662 X +8.737
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -77522.901600 X +102554.850
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.896562 X +83.621
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.842721 X +2.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.137811 X +14.775
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003