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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 belong to the country's religion"
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 Philippines84.4%
2 South Africa79.0%
3 Israel76.5%
4 Bulgaria76.2%
5 Poland74.8%
6 Venezuela71.3%
7 United States65.8%
8 Portugal65.6%
9 Russian Federation58.3%
10 Ireland57.8%
11 Chile54.1%
12 Canada54.0%
13 Austria53.1%
14 Slovakia49.7%
15 Spain44.0%
16 Hungary43.2%
17 Republic of Korea41.0%
18 Switzerland39.3%
19 New Zealand37.4%
20 Australia36.9%
21 United Kingdom34.8%
22 Denmark33.2%
23 Slovenia32.5%
24 Czech Republic29.3%
25 Germany29.1%
26 Uruguay28.8%
27 Taiwan26.1%
28 Japan25.4%
29 Finland 23.0%
30 Latvia22.5%
31 Norway20.3%
32 France17.5%
33 Sweden17.2%
34 Netherlands13.1%

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 = -1.927420 X +7.463
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -48377.990915 X +61795.245
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -12.825340 X +84.996
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.580
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.336
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.801049 X +1.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -7.847996 X +16.926
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076