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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 current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 22.5%
2 Germany19.5%
3 Republic of Korea19.2%
4 Australia15.8%
5 United States15.5%
6 Sweden14.9%
7 France14.4%
8 United Kingdom13.4%
9 Canada11.8%

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 = -9.577151 X +8.363
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -147153.181490 X +75352.797
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 25.451916 X +77.687
Correlation coefficient (r)0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.831887 X +2.113
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 76.775127 X +2.238
Correlation coefficient (r)0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208