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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 race/ethnic background"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile24.4%
2 Portugal21.9%
3 Uruguay20.5%
4 France20.2%
5 Germany18.6%
6 Czech Republic15.1%
7 Spain15.0%
8 Sweden13.8%
9 Norway13.6%
10 New Zealand11.7%
11 Japan11.6%
12 Slovakia10.8%
13 Poland10.6%
14 Slovenia10.3%
15 Austria10.1%
16 Finland 10.0%
17 United Kingdom9.7%
18 Switzerland9.4%
19 Israel9.3%
20 Russian Federation8.6%
20 United States8.6%
22 Ireland8.5%
22 South Africa8.5%
24 Latvia8.1%
25 Canada8.0%
26 Republic of Korea7.9%
27 Hungary7.6%
28 Australia6.4%
29 Bulgaria6.0%
29 Netherlands6.0%
31 Denmark5.4%
32 Venezuela4.8%
33 Philippines4.3%
34 Taiwan2.0%

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 = 0.950112 X +6.501
Correlation coefficient (r)0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -27038.705965 X +43156.711
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 25.803463 X +76.353
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.998504 X +1.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 4.983799 X +12.833
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002