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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 religion (or being agnostic or atheist)"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel13.9%
2 Slovakia11.8%
3 Philippines11.5%
4 Poland11.0%
4 United States11.0%
6 Venezuela10.6%
7 South Africa9.6%
8 Ireland8.0%
9 Taiwan7.9%
10 New Zealand6.8%
11 Canada5.9%
12 Netherlands5.6%
13 Australia4.8%
14 France4.7%
15 Finland 4.5%
16 Republic of Korea4.4%
17 Austria4.0%
17 Hungary4.0%
19 Norway3.9%
20 Portugal3.5%
21 Germany3.2%
22 Chile3.0%
22 Slovenia3.0%
22 United Kingdom3.0%
25 Latvia2.9%
26 Sweden2.3%
26 Uruguay2.3%
28 Denmark2.2%
29 Russian Federation2.1%
29 Switzerland2.1%
31 Czech Republic2.0%
31 Spain2.0%
33 Japan1.7%
34 Bulgaria1.2%

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 = -2.587538 X +6.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -75147.116758 X +44222.953
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -41.321707 X +81.369
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 6.125402 X +1.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.577
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.333

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -54.683848 X +16.243
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111