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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 social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan8.5%
2 Venezuela8.4%
3 Netherlands6.5%
3 Russian Federation6.5%
5 Hungary6.1%
6 France5.5%
7 Israel4.9%
8 Philippines4.6%
9 Latvia4.1%
10 Spain4.0%
11 Czech Republic3.4%
12 Germany3.1%
12 Republic of Korea3.1%
14 Austria2.9%
15 Poland2.6%
16 Bulgaria2.5%
17 Finland2.4%
18 Portugal 2.3%
19 United States2.1%
20 Chile2.0%
21 Switzerland1.9%
22 Japan1.8%
22 United Kingdom1.8%
24 Uruguay1.7%
25 Denmark1.6%
25 Slovenia1.6%
27 Australia1.5%
28 Canada1.3%
28 Norway1.3%
28 South Africa1.3%
31 New Zealand1.1%
32 Slovakia1.0%
33 Sweden0.9%
34 Ireland0.7%

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 = -11.816713 X +6.969
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -455113.377370 X +54290.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -76.010775 X +81.432
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 5.335600 X +1.486
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -42.209944 X +14.619
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019