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Question: In general, which in the following list is most important to you in describing who you are?
Choices: "Your current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)" "Your race/ethnic background" "Your gender (that is, being a man/woman)" "Your age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)" "Your religion (or being agnostic or atheist)" "Your preferred political party, group, or movement"? "Your nationality" "Your family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)" "Your social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)" "The part of country that you live in"
Data: % of "Your age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain22.9%
2 Hungary11.3%
3 Netherlands10.8%
4 Latvia10.2%
5 Finland10.1%
6 Switzerland9.4%
7 Republic of Korea8.9%
8 Czech Republic8.5%
9 Japan 7.0%
10 Portugal6.9%
11 Slovenia6.2%
12 Germany5.7%
13 France5.6%
14 Israel5.3%
15 Australia4.5%
15 Sweden4.5%
17 Poland4.2%
18 Chile4.1%
19 Slovakia4.0%
20 Norway3.5%
20 United Kingdom3.5%
20 United States3.5%
23 Denmark3.3%
24 Austria3.0%
24 Canada3.0%
24 Ireland3.0%
24 New Zealand3.0%

Note
Others/ 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 = -2.837832 X +7.026
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -154170.562021 X +57502.964
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.678045 X +80.961
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.056360 X +1.693
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 11.748995 X +12.490
Correlation coefficient (r)0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012