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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 "The part of country that you live in"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary12.7%
2 Slovenia12.2%
3 Japan 7.3%
4 Switzerland6.3%
5 Austria6.0%
5 France6.0%
7 Canada5.6%
8 Germany5.5%
9 Republic of Korea5.2%
9 Slovakia5.2%
11 Czech Republic5.1%
12 Netherlands5.0%
13 Poland4.4%
14 Ireland4.1%
14 Portugal4.1%
16 United States3.8%
17 Chile3.4%
18 Spain3.3%
19 Australia3.2%
20 Israel2.8%
20 Norway2.8%
22 Finland2.7%
22 Sweden2.7%
24 Latvia2.6%
25 United Kingdom2.4%
26 New Zealand2.2%
27 Denmark1.9%

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 = -7.824101 X +7.213
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -241962.172636 X +58974.644
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -21.258872 X +81.864
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.610712 X +1.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 70.006323 X +9.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164