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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to be able to speak the country's language"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary96.9%
2 Norway96.0%
3 Sweden95.8%
4 Netherlands95.5%
5 Czech Republic94.5%
6 Slovenia94.3%
7 Austria93.0%
7 United States93.0%
9 Philippines 92.7%
10 Slovakia92.5%
11 Poland91.9%
12 Bulgaria90.1%
13 Germany89.1%
14 United Kingdom88.4%
15 Australia87.9%
16 Latvia87.8%
16 New Zealand87.8%
18 Italy85.7%
19 Spain82.0%
20 Russian Federation81.8%
21 Canada80.9%
22 Japan70.4%
23 Ireland42.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 215 countries.
Source
ISSP 1995

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.264767 X +6.410
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -78501.077093 X +110233.963
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -8.284465 X +86.597
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.318899 X +1.279
Correlation coefficient (r)0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3.586325 X +9.600
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007