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Question: How important is having well-educated parents for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 70.7%
2 South Africa64.3%
3 Germany56.7%
4 Italy51.0%
5 Suriname50.8%
6 Bulgaria49.4%
7 Thailand47.3%
8 Chile46.6%
9 Venezuela45.3%
10 United States43.3%
11 Russian Federation40.4%
12 Austria39.3%
13 New Zealand37.7%
14 Croatia36.6%
15 Slovenia35.1%
16 France34.1%
17 Taiwan31.1%
18 Australia28.2%
19 United Kingdom26.7%
20 Iceland26.6%
21 Lithuania24.8%
22 Israel24.7%
23 Sweden23.2%
24 Czech Republic20.4%
25 Japan20.1%
26 Switzerland19.8%
27 Norway18.1%
28 Denmark16.8%
29 Finland12.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.095934 X +7.723
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.704
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.496

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -110454.026699 X +80616.867
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -22.628957 X +87.020
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.643
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.413

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 1.223588 X +1.236
Correlation coefficient (r)0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.240252 X +10.985
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000