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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 lived in the country for most of one's life"
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 Chile90.8%
2 Portugal88.5%
3 Spain86.7%
4 Israel83.4%
4 Poland83.4%
6 Czech Republic81.9%
7 United States81.1%
8 Latvia81.0%
9 Canada79.6%
10 Ireland77.8%
11 Austria77.6%
12 New Zealand77.0%
13 Hungary76.6%
14 Japan 73.7%
15 Denmark73.2%
16 Slovenia72.9%
17 United Kingdom72.7%
18 Norway72.3%
19 France70.7%
20 Australia68.5%
20 Republic of Korea68.5%
22 Germany67.5%
23 Switzerland66.3%
24 Finland65.2%
25 Slovakia63.9%
26 Netherlands56.2%
27 Sweden55.8%

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 = -2.841613 X +8.959
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -97711.129897 X +120300.875
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -7.640840 X +86.548
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.481092 X +1.201
Correlation coefficient (r)0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -14.746146 X +24.249
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083