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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 feel the country's nationality"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia94.4%
2 Italy91.6%
3 Japan 89.0%
4 Canada87.5%
5 United States86.7%
6 Sweden86.6%
7 United Kingdom78.8%
8 Germany75.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.432521 X +8.115
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 10908.803477 X +42799.668
Correlation coefficient (r)0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 13.151007 X +70.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.709059 X +2.105
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 5.312388 X +7.580
Correlation coefficient (r)0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010