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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 belong to the country's religion"
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 Philippines 82.9%
2 Bulgaria71.1%
3 Ireland54.4%
4 Austria54.2%
5 United States53.7%
6 Poland52.7%
7 Italy52.3%
8 Spain46.7%
9 Russian Federation39.7%
10 Hungary35.9%
11 United Kingdom35.5%
12 Latvia35.4%
13 Slovenia33.8%
14 Australia31.5%
15 New Zealand30.2%
16 Germany30.0%
17 Slovakia27.0%
18 Japan26.5%
19 Canada24.5%
20 Czech Republic22.2%
21 Norway21.4%
22 Sweden17.4%
23 Netherlands7.3%

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 = -1.861043 X +7.359
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -45983.805182 X +59347.194
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -11.215401 X +83.678
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.483725 X +1.371
Correlation coefficient (r)0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -10.070150 X +16.615
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135