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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel76.5%
2 Poland74.8%
3 United States65.8%
4 Portugal65.6%
5 Ireland57.8%
6 Chile54.1%
7 Canada54.0%
8 Austria53.1%
9 Slovakia49.7%
10 Spain44.0%
11 Hungary43.2%
12 Republic of Korea41.0%
13 Switzerland39.3%
14 New Zealand37.4%
15 Australia36.9%
16 United Kingdom34.8%
17 Denmark33.2%
18 Slovenia32.5%
19 Czech Republic29.3%
20 Germany29.1%
21 Japan 25.4%
22 Finland23.0%
23 Latvia22.5%
24 Norway20.3%
25 France17.5%
26 Sweden17.2%
27 Netherlands13.1%

Note
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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.848488 X +7.184
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -18180.606079 X +54806.022
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.377394 X +82.217
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.420957 X +1.389
Correlation coefficient (r)0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -7.347271 X +16.225
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082