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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 nationality"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland 22.2%
2 Israel17.8%
3 France16.1%
3 Ireland16.1%
5 Venezuela15.8%
6 Japan15.3%
7 Bulgaria14.9%
8 Uruguay14.8%
9 Poland14.0%
10 Portugal12.8%
11 Chile12.5%
12 Slovenia10.5%
13 Canada10.1%
14 New Zealand10.0%
15 United Kingdom9.6%
16 Norway9.3%
17 Czech Republic8.7%
18 Australia8.5%
19 Austria7.5%
20 South Africa7.4%
21 Spain7.1%
22 Republic of Korea6.4%
23 Philippines6.3%
24 Sweden5.9%
25 Switzerland5.8%
26 Denmark5.6%
26 Netherlands5.6%
28 Germany4.7%
29 Taiwan4.3%
30 Slovakia4.0%
31 Russian Federation2.9%
32 United States2.4%
33 Latvia1.2%
34 Hungary0.0%

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 = 0.468500 X +6.560
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 10958.478403 X +39216.919
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 19.975354 X +77.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.454236 X +1.505
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -34.947442 X +16.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098