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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 be able to speak the country's language"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark97.5%
1 Netherlands97.5%
3 United States97.0%
4 Norway96.8%
5 Sweden96.3%
6 Hungary96.0%
7 Slovenia95.1%
8 Poland94.7%
8 Portugal94.7%
10 Germany94.1%
11 France94.0%
12 New Zealand93.2%
13 Switzerland92.8%
14 Canada92.7%
15 Australia92.0%
16 Czech Republic91.9%
17 Austria91.6%
18 United Kingdom90.8%
19 Republic of Korea87.8%
20 Chile87.0%
21 Israel86.8%
22 Slovakia 86.2%
23 Finland86.0%
24 Latvia85.8%
25 Spain84.2%
26 Japan78.4%
27 Ireland38.7%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.440130 X +6.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -53726.033640 X +95605.523
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.694425 X +84.163
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.020747 X +1.578
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 5.407672 X +8.409
Correlation coefficient (r)0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018