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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 religion (or being agnostic or atheist)"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel13.9%
2 Slovakia11.8%
3 Philippines11.5%
4 Poland11.0%
4 United States11.0%
6 Venezuela10.6%
7 South Africa9.6%
8 Ireland8.0%
9 Taiwan7.9%
10 New Zealand6.8%
11 Canada5.9%
12 Netherlands5.6%
13 Australia4.8%
14 France4.7%
15 Finland4.5%
16 Republic of Korea4.4%
17 Austria4.0%
17 Hungary4.0%
19 Norway3.9%
20 Portugal3.5%
21 Germany3.2%
22 Chile3.0%
22 Slovenia3.0%
22 United Kingdom3.0%
25 Latvia2.9%
26 Sweden2.3%
26 Uruguay2.3%
28 Denmark2.2%
29 Russian Federation2.1%
29 Switzerland2.1%
31 Czech Republic2.0%
31 Spain2.0%
33 Japan 1.7%
34 Bulgaria1.2%

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 = -1.388637 X +6.665
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -56381.524859 X +43857.008
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -48.713568 X +81.189
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 6.996098 X +1.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -27.566405 X +12.259
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039