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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 the country's ancestry"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines95.0%
2 Venezuela87.6%
3 Poland84.7%
4 South Africa83.7%
5 Portugal83.6%
6 Chile81.7%
7 Ireland81.4%
8 Hungary79.2%
9 Spain79.1%
10 Russian Federation76.5%
11 Republic of Korea73.3%
12 Japan72.1%
13 Czech Republic70.2%
14 Uruguay69.2%
15 New Zealand60.0%
16 Denmark58.3%
17 Austria57.6%
18 United States55.2%
19 Norway54.6%
19 Slovenia54.6%
21 Canada54.5%
22 Finland 52.4%
23 Germany51.5%
23 United Kingdom51.5%
25 Taiwan51.4%
26 Israel50.8%
27 Slovakia50.6%
28 France49.2%
29 Switzerland40.3%
30 Australia37.7%
31 Sweden30.0%
32 Netherlands22.6%

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 206 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -3.006267 X +8.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -86031.108146 X +95514.319
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -13.404915 X +87.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.533
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.284
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.292396 X +1.464
Correlation coefficient (r)0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -1.883300 X +14.471
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003