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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 belong to the country's religion"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States65.8%
2 Canada54.0%
3 Republic of Korea41.0%
4 Australia36.9%
5 United Kingdom34.8%
6 Germany29.1%
7 Japan 25.4%
8 France17.5%
9 Sweden17.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.129563 X +6.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 27085.046840 X +41636.378
Correlation coefficient (r)0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.002808 X +84.705
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.409799 X +1.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.403674 X +13.204
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016