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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 race/ethnic background"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile24.4%
2 Portugal21.9%
3 France20.2%
4 Germany18.6%
5 Czech Republic15.1%
6 Spain15.0%
7 Sweden13.8%
8 Norway13.6%
9 New Zealand11.7%
10 Japan 11.6%
11 Slovakia10.8%
12 Poland10.6%
13 Slovenia10.3%
14 Austria10.1%
15 Finland10.0%
16 United Kingdom9.7%
17 Switzerland9.4%
18 Israel9.3%
19 United States8.6%
20 Ireland8.5%
21 Latvia8.1%
22 Canada8.0%
23 Republic of Korea7.9%
24 Hungary7.6%
25 Australia6.4%
26 Netherlands6.0%
27 Denmark5.4%

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 = -3.578895 X +7.255
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -157608.046907 X +65706.546
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.316966 X +80.468
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.065001 X +1.552
Correlation coefficient (r)0.010
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -22.731344 X +15.887
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059