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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 current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic26.9%
2 Finland25.2%
3 Switzerland23.7%
4 Latvia22.7%
5 Spain22.6%
6 Japan 22.5%
7 Chile20.2%
8 Germany19.5%
9 Republic of Korea19.2%
10 Austria18.3%
10 Slovenia18.3%
12 Poland17.8%
13 Israel17.4%
14 Slovakia16.8%
15 Australia15.8%
16 Ireland15.6%
17 United States15.5%
18 Sweden14.9%
19 France14.4%
20 New Zealand14.1%
21 Hungary14.0%
22 Netherlands13.7%
23 Portugal13.5%
24 United Kingdom13.4%
25 Denmark11.9%
26 Canada11.8%
27 Norway10.4%

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 = -1.811579 X +7.156
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -144207.472627 X +72567.160
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.357377 X +81.611
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.009775 X +1.735
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 22.663732 X +9.310
Correlation coefficient (r)0.216
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047