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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 nationality"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland22.2%
2 Israel17.8%
3 France16.1%
3 Ireland16.1%
5 Venezuela15.8%
6 Japan 15.3%
7 Bulgaria14.9%
8 Uruguay14.8%
9 Poland14.0%
10 Portugal12.8%
11 Chile12.5%
12 Slovenia10.5%
13 Canada10.1%
14 New Zealand10.0%
15 United Kingdom9.6%
16 Norway9.3%
17 Czech Republic8.7%
18 Australia8.5%
19 Austria7.5%
20 South Africa7.4%
21 Spain7.1%
22 Republic of Korea6.4%
23 Philippines6.3%
24 Sweden5.9%
25 Switzerland5.8%
26 Denmark5.6%
26 Netherlands5.6%
28 Germany4.7%
29 Taiwan4.3%
30 Slovakia4.0%
31 Russian Federation2.9%
32 United States2.4%
33 Latvia1.2%
34 Hungary0.0%

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.401546 X +6.461
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 7249.567323 X +40191.474
Correlation coefficient (r)0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 21.612161 X +76.600
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.082746 X +1.560
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -24.382655 X +13.121
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066