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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 feel the country's nationality"
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 Hungary98.5%
2 Poland97.4%
3 Latvia96.1%
4 Ireland95.6%
5 Slovakia94.6%
6 Australia94.4%
7 Czech Republic92.6%
8 Austria92.3%
9 Slovenia91.8%
10 Italy91.6%
11 New Zealand90.4%
11 Norway90.4%
13 Japan 89.0%
14 Spain88.9%
15 Canada87.5%
16 United States86.7%
17 Sweden86.6%
18 Netherlands82.1%
19 United Kingdom78.8%
20 Germany75.5%

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 = -3.655253 X +10.092
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -101417.388708 X +137815.067
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -17.398661 X +96.111
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.040161 X +1.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 15.494228 X -1.156
Correlation coefficient (r)0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066