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Question: How close do you feel to [Continent]?
Choices: "Very close" "Close" "Not very close" "Not close at all"
Data: % of "Very close" "Close"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary93.9%
2 Switzerland78.9%
3 Spain77.8%
4 Chile72.8%
5 Bulgaria72.5%
6 Czech Republic71.7%
7 Slovakia71.5%
8 Austria70.2%
9 South Africa70.1%
10 Canada68.5%
11 Portugal68.2%
12 United States67.1%
13 Slovenia66.7%
14 Poland63.6%
15 Japan62.6%
16 Germany59.9%
16 Norway59.9%
18 Venezuela56.8%
19 France55.9%
20 Denmark 53.9%
21 Uruguay53.1%
22 Sweden48.8%
23 Netherlands47.3%
24 New Zealand46.3%
25 Ireland45.8%
26 Israel44.0%
27 Philippines42.5%
28 Finland40.1%
29 Republic of Korea30.4%
30 United Kingdom26.6%
31 Latvia19.6%
32 Australia15.7%
33 Russian Federation12.0%
34 Taiwan11.3%

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 = -0.219402 X +6.723
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -6452.256500 X +43738.931
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.054511 X +79.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.079662 X +1.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.410771 X +16.393
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031