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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 race/ethnic background"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France20.2%
2 Germany18.6%
3 Sweden13.8%
4 Japan 11.6%
5 United Kingdom9.7%
6 United States8.6%
7 Canada8.0%
8 Republic of Korea7.9%
9 Australia6.4%

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 = 0.853773 X +6.699
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -46959.536050 X +56785.955
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.418494 X +81.796
Correlation coefficient (r)0.010
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.708818 X +1.171
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -23.392720 X +17.502
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041