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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 South Africa20.7%
2 Switzerland12.8%
3 Latvia12.3%
4 Slovenia12.0%
5 Bulgaria11.9%
6 Russian Federation10.3%
7 Japan9.2%
8 Hungary8.8%
9 Chile8.3%
10 France6.9%
11 Israel6.2%
11 Philippines6.2%
13 Germany5.9%
14 Austria4.8%
15 United States4.3%
16 Czech Republic3.6%
17 Spain3.4%
18 Portugal3.2%
18 Taiwan3.2%
20 Ireland3.1%
20 Uruguay3.1%
22 Canada2.9%
23 New Zealand2.7%
24 Australia2.6%
25 Venezuela2.4%
26 United Kingdom2.2%
27 Finland 1.9%
27 Poland1.9%
29 Slovakia1.8%
30 Netherlands1.7%
31 Norway1.6%
32 Denmark1.3%
33 Sweden0.9%
34 Republic of Korea0.0%

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 = -7.052439 X +6.986
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -171239.654620 X +49507.859
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.305
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.093

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -53.056208 X +82.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.231789 X +1.520
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 41.750200 X +11.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107