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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to have the country's citizenship"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela96.3%
2 Philippines96.1%
3 United States96.0%
4 Canada95.4%
5 South Africa93.2%
6 Portugal92.2%
7 Chile91.7%
8 Ireland91.6%
9 Poland91.3%
10 Austria90.3%
11 Australia89.9%
12 New Zealand 89.5%
12 Norway89.5%
14 Bulgaria89.0%
15 Spain88.3%
16 Russian Federation87.8%
16 Uruguay87.8%
18 Republic of Korea87.7%
19 Israel87.2%
19 United Kingdom87.2%
21 Czech Republic86.7%
21 Japan86.7%
23 France85.7%
24 Denmark85.1%
25 Finland84.1%
26 Slovenia82.0%
27 Sweden81.9%
28 Netherlands81.8%
29 Germany81.0%
30 Taiwan80.0%
31 Switzerland79.4%
32 Hungary77.4%
33 Latvia71.1%
34 Slovakia70.8%

Note
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 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.525304 X +8.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -18786.298169 X +56545.005
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -11.145230 X +88.908
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.359477 X +0.459
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -26.543957 X +36.484
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081