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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 "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines68.9%
2 United Kingdom44.9%
3 Chile34.6%
4 Australia33.3%
5 United States31.6%
6 New Zealand31.0%
7 Israel28.5%
8 Latvia28.3%
9 Canada28.2%
10 Russian Federation26.7%
11 Poland23.5%
12 Portugal21.0%
13 Bulgaria19.4%
14 Japan 17.9%
15 Norway15.1%
16 Slovenia14.3%
17 Slovakia14.1%
18 Germany11.3%
19 Sweden11.1%
20 Czech Republic9.4%
21 Cyprus7.8%
22 Spain7.6%
23 Austria7.3%
24 Hungary5.8%
25 France5.2%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.194871 X +6.580
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -21575.630614 X +42796.262
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -11.289793 X +81.421
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.320744 X +1.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.144117 X +10.727
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021