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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 feel the country's nationality"
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 Hungary97.1%
2 Poland97.0%
3 Chile96.4%
4 Portugal93.4%
5 Australia92.8%
6 France92.0%
6 Republic of Korea92.0%
6 United States92.0%
9 Canada91.9%
10 New Zealand91.3%
11 Slovenia90.6%
12 Denmark90.0%
13 Latvia89.2%
14 Austria88.5%
15 Czech Republic88.3%
15 Spain 88.3%
17 Japan87.6%
18 Ireland87.4%
19 Israel87.0%
20 Finland86.9%
21 Norway84.3%
22 Netherlands83.2%
23 Sweden82.2%
24 United Kingdom79.4%
25 Switzerland75.2%
26 Slovakia73.8%
27 Germany73.7%

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 = -3.525924 X +9.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -130214.893200 X +161831.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -6.934476 X +86.943
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.318135 X +1.839
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 10.635291 X +3.914
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023