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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 preferred political party, group, or movement"?
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain3.3%
2 France2.1%
3 Finland1.9%
4 Israel1.4%
4 Sweden1.4%
6 Austria1.3%
6 Hungary1.3%
8 Japan 1.1%
8 Netherlands1.1%
8 New Zealand1.1%
11 Germany0.9%
12 Norway0.8%
13 Canada0.7%
13 Denmark0.7%
15 Australia0.6%
15 Chile0.6%
15 Czech Republic0.6%
15 Portugal0.6%
15 Switzerland0.6%
20 Ireland0.5%
20 Slovakia0.5%
22 Poland0.4%
22 United States0.4%
24 Slovenia0.3%
24 United Kingdom0.3%
26 Republic of Korea0.2%
27 Latvia0.0%

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 = 14.939564 X +6.704
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -43256.215224 X +47854.751
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 115.224340 X +79.798
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.117734 X +1.522
Correlation coefficient (r)0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -204.267787 X +15.124
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096