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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 have been born in the country"
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 96.4%
2 Bulgaria87.6%
3 Ireland85.9%
4 Poland81.5%
5 United Kingdom78.5%
6 Italy78.0%
6 Spain78.0%
8 Austria72.2%
8 Russian Federation72.2%
10 Czech Republic69.4%
10 New Zealand69.4%
12 Slovenia69.1%
13 United States68.8%
14 Japan68.5%
15 Hungary67.9%
16 Latvia66.3%
17 Slovakia65.3%
18 Norway62.2%
19 Australia55.7%
20 Germany52.6%
21 Netherlands52.1%
22 Sweden50.4%
23 Canada45.4%

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 = -2.753819 X +8.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -73340.542459 X +92436.487
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -13.956659 X +89.025
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.599514 X +1.142
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -14.861050 X +23.030
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.386
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.149