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Question: How long have you lived in the city, town or local community where you live now?
Choices: "Since birth" "Since the year ___________"
Data: % of "Since the year ___________" (that is, those who do not live since birth)
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France89.7%
2 Australia88.5%
3 United Kingdom76.6%
4 Japan 70.9%
5 Canada69.1%
6 Germany61.7%
7 Italy35.5%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.695301 X +6.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 30398.269636 X +26244.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.971232 X +81.575
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.838199 X +0.908
Correlation coefficient (r)0.801
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.642

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 9.941413 X +4.484
Correlation coefficient (r)0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350