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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland54.4%
2 Austria54.2%
3 United States53.7%
4 Poland52.7%
5 Italy52.3%
6 Spain46.7%
7 Hungary35.9%
8 United Kingdom35.5%
9 Latvia35.4%
10 Slovenia33.8%
11 Australia31.5%
12 New Zealand30.2%
13 Germany30.0%
14 Slovakia27.0%
15 Japan 26.5%
16 Canada24.5%
17 Czech Republic22.2%
18 Norway21.4%
19 Sweden17.4%
20 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 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.137911 X +7.195
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.339
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.115

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2799.348398 X +47468.264
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.923621 X +81.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.319784 X +1.624
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.900974 X +14.146
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022