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Question: Is it just or unjust ? right or wrong ? that people with higher incomes can buy better education for their children than people with lower incomes?
Choices: "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right" "Neither just nor unjust, mixed feelings" "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Data: % of "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Croatia80.7%
2 Iceland78.7%
3 Belgium77.4%
3 Turkiye77.4%
5 Slovenia76.6%
6 Hungary75.4%
7 Italy75.1%
8 Germany75.0%
9 Cyprus74.9%
10 Bulgaria74.2%
11 France73.5%
12 Latvia72.2%
13 Sweden69.3%
14 Austria68.5%
15 Ukraine68.4%
16 Denmark67.8%
17 Switzerland65.3%
18 Poland63.2%
19 Slovakia62.3%
20 Chile62.0%
21 Finland61.9%
22 Norway60.6%
23 Russian Federation58.9%
24 Spain58.8%
25 Czech Republic58.4%
26 Lithuania58.1%
27 Portugal57.4%
28 Estonia56.9%
29 Argentina55.4%
30 Australia52.7%
31 Israel49.1%
32 United States44.5%
33 Republic of Korea41.4%
34 Japan 41.1%
35 New Zealand36.3%
36 United Kingdom36.0%
37 Venezuela34.0%
38 South Africa26.6%
39 Taiwan24.3%
40 Philippines18.7%
41 China15.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 0.440826 X +6.194
Correlation coefficient (r)0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 25079.437761 X +20941.733
Correlation coefficient (r)0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 7.743157 X +73.662
Correlation coefficient (r)0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.594715 X +1.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.401956 X +10.743
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000