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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 age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea8.9%
2 Japan 7.0%
3 Germany5.7%
4 France5.6%
5 Australia4.5%
5 Sweden4.5%
7 United Kingdom3.5%
7 United States3.5%
9 Canada3.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -21.455479 X +7.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.822
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.676

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -433554.094579 X +73573.555
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.729
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.531

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 64.694348 X +78.523
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.961938 X +1.998
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 235.628604 X +2.682
Correlation coefficient (r)0.783
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.613