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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 social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands6.5%
2 Hungary6.1%
3 France5.5%
4 Israel4.9%
5 Latvia4.1%
6 Spain4.0%
7 Czech Republic3.4%
8 Germany3.1%
8 Republic of Korea3.1%
10 Austria2.9%
11 Poland2.6%
12 Finland2.4%
13 Portugal2.3%
14 United States2.1%
15 Chile2.0%
16 Switzerland1.9%
17 Japan 1.8%
17 United Kingdom1.8%
19 Denmark1.6%
19 Slovenia1.6%
21 Australia1.5%
22 Canada1.3%
22 Norway1.3%
24 New Zealand1.1%
25 Slovakia1.0%
26 Sweden0.9%
27 Ireland0.7%

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 = -5.751109 X +6.993
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -464138.732449 X +59750.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -38.279910 X +81.866
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.245
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.581153 X +1.438
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 17.816639 X +12.784
Correlation coefficient (r)0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004