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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 nationality"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland22.2%
2 Israel17.8%
3 France16.1%
3 Ireland 16.1%
5 Japan15.3%
6 Poland14.0%
7 Portugal12.8%
8 Chile12.5%
9 Slovenia10.5%
10 Canada10.1%
11 New Zealand10.0%
12 United Kingdom9.6%
13 Norway9.3%
14 Czech Republic8.7%
15 Australia8.5%
16 Austria7.5%
17 Spain7.1%
18 Republic of Korea6.4%
19 Sweden5.9%
20 Switzerland5.8%
21 Denmark5.6%
21 Netherlands5.6%
23 Germany4.7%
24 Slovakia4.0%
25 United States2.4%
26 Latvia1.2%
27 Hungary0.0%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.445702 X +6.707
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 36197.225261 X +44111.464
Correlation coefficient (r)0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 22.045654 X +78.813
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.477833 X +1.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -27.204444 X +15.771
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100