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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 Japan 9.2%
2 France6.9%
3 Germany5.9%
4 United States4.3%
5 Canada2.9%
6 Australia2.6%
7 United Kingdom2.2%
8 Sweden0.9%
9 Republic of Korea0.0%

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 = -4.435822 X +6.970
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -67734.733780 X +53944.380
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.939123 X +81.614
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.158043 X +1.364
Correlation coefficient (r)0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -57.202966 X +16.996
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089