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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 the country's ancestry"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland84.7%
2 Portugal83.6%
3 Chile81.7%
4 Ireland81.4%
5 Hungary79.2%
6 Spain79.1%
7 Republic of Korea73.3%
8 Japan 72.1%
9 Czech Republic70.2%
10 New Zealand60.0%
11 Denmark58.3%
12 Austria57.6%
13 United States55.2%
14 Norway54.6%
14 Slovenia54.6%
16 Canada54.5%
17 Finland52.4%
18 Germany51.5%
18 United Kingdom51.5%
20 Israel50.8%
21 Slovakia50.6%
22 France49.2%
23 Switzerland40.3%
24 Australia37.7%
25 Sweden30.0%
26 Netherlands22.6%

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 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -2.300334 X +8.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -62373.768622 X +85358.104
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.454
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.206

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -3.833361 X +83.327
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.520284 X +1.867
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.036678 X +13.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000