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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 have been born in the country"
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 Philippines95.6%
2 Venezuela95.0%
3 South Africa91.6%
4 Portugal90.8%
5 Bulgaria89.9%
6 Chile89.7%
7 Spain88.4%
8 Uruguay88.3%
9 Poland87.8%
10 Russian Federation84.9%
11 Ireland84.7%
12 Republic of Korea80.5%
13 Czech Republic78.5%
14 United States77.4%
15 New Zealand76.9%
16 Japan76.5%
17 Austria75.3%
18 Canada75.1%
19 United Kingdom73.4%
20 Hungary71.2%
20 Latvia71.2%
22 Finland 69.2%
23 Slovenia68.3%
24 Denmark67.5%
25 Taiwan66.1%
26 Norway64.8%
27 Israel62.0%
28 France61.1%
29 Germany60.2%
29 Slovakia60.2%
31 Australia58.8%
32 Switzerland52.0%
33 Netherlands49.2%
34 Sweden48.2%

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 = -3.888512 X +9.498
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.704
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.496
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -114832.315614 X +125694.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -18.068192 X +92.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.337960 X +1.390
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.284744 X +15.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006