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Question: In general, which in the following list is most important to you in describing who you are?
Choices: "Your current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)" "Your race/ethnic background" "Your gender (that is, being a man/woman)" "Your age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)" "Your religion (or being agnostic or atheist)" "Your preferred political party, group, or movement"? "Your nationality" "Your family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)" "Your social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)" "The part of country that you live in"
Data: % of "Your family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark66.1%
2 United Kingdom54.1%
3 Norway52.9%
4 Sweden52.5%
5 Australia52.1%
6 Canada50.6%
7 United States48.4%
8 New Zealand47.4%
9 Philippines44.8%
9 Republic of Korea44.8%
11 Netherlands44.0%
11 Slovakia44.0%
13 Austria42.2%
14 Ireland40.3%
15 Latvia35.7%
16 Hungary34.3%
17 Germany33.0%
17 Poland33.0%
19 South Africa31.4%
20 Portugal31.2%
21 Bulgaria28.4%
22 Switzerland28.1%
23 Russian Federation27.8%
24 Czech Republic26.3%
25 Slovenia25.6%
26 Uruguay23.7%
27 Japan22.5%
28 Venezuela21.9%
29 Chile21.5%
30 Israel21.0%
31 Finland 19.3%
32 France18.4%
33 Spain16.5%
34 Taiwan3.3%

Note
Others/ 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 = 1.866942 X +5.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 75586.768647 X +13844.837
Correlation coefficient (r)0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 5.293262 X +77.310
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.479044 X +1.814
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.635100 X +13.971
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001