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Question: How long have you lived in the city, town or local community where you live now?
Choices: "Since birth" "Since the year ___________"
Data: % of "Since the year ___________" (that is, those who do not live since birth)
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland93.9%
2 Brazil 91.8%
3 France89.7%
4 Australia88.5%
5 Chile83.2%
6 Denmark82.0%
7 Israel79.8%
8 United Kingdom76.6%
9 New Zealand75.9%
10 South Africa73.3%
11 Japan70.9%
12 Canada69.1%
13 Hungary68.3%
14 Russian Federation65.7%
15 Norway61.9%
16 Germany61.7%
17 Slovenia60.0%
18 Poland58.9%
19 Latvia58.4%
20 Austria52.8%
21 Czech Republic49.7%
22 Spain38.2%
23 Italy35.5%
24 Cyprus22.7%

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 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.785600 X +6.113
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 30956.551960 X +18991.578
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.073136 X +79.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.816794 X +1.060
Correlation coefficient (r)0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 4.750064 X +9.483
Correlation coefficient (r)0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026