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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 social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France5.5%
2 Germany3.1%
2 Republic of Korea3.1%
4 United States2.1%
5 Japan 1.8%
5 United Kingdom1.8%
7 Australia1.5%
8 Canada1.3%
9 Sweden0.9%

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 = -12.302458 X +7.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -336149.239949 X +59198.610
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.416
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.173

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.561159 X +81.858
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.501776 X +1.428
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 88.023867 X +12.714
Correlation coefficient (r)0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046