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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 nationality"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France16.1%
2 Japan 15.3%
3 Canada10.1%
4 United Kingdom9.6%
5 Australia8.5%
6 Republic of Korea6.4%
7 Sweden5.9%
8 Germany4.7%
9 United States2.4%

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 = -4.228016 X +7.170
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -134869.651943 X +63156.336
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 27.528024 X +79.428
Correlation coefficient (r)0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.801277 X +1.416
Correlation coefficient (r)0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -25.712529 X +17.035
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043