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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 "The part of country that you live in"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 7.3%
2 France6.0%
3 Canada5.6%
4 Germany5.5%
5 Republic of Korea5.2%
6 United States3.8%
7 Australia3.2%
8 Sweden2.7%
9 United Kingdom2.4%

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 = -19.449837 X +7.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -400423.567824 X +69870.736
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.594
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.353

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 47.358267 X +79.650
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.875334 X +1.713
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 91.436628 X +10.541
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072