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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China69.4%
2 Philippines65.4%
3 Taiwan63.7%
4 South Africa62.1%
5 Venezuela46.4%
6 United Kingdom41.7%
7 New Zealand36.7%
8 Japan 36.2%
9 United States34.8%
10 Republic of Korea33.1%
11 Israel31.6%
12 Argentina27.5%
13 Australia27.4%
14 Lithuania26.0%
15 Estonia24.8%
16 Czech Republic24.1%
17 Spain23.2%
18 Chile21.9%
19 Portugal21.8%
20 Russian Federation19.5%
21 Poland17.2%
22 Norway15.8%
23 Finland13.6%
24 Denmark13.5%
25 Slovakia13.4%
26 Ukraine13.1%
27 Sweden13.0%
28 Turkiye12.7%
29 Cyprus11.9%
29 Italy11.9%
31 Switzerland11.8%
32 Bulgaria11.5%
33 Latvia11.3%
34 Austria10.8%
35 Germany10.0%
36 Croatia9.9%
37 Slovenia9.5%
38 Iceland9.2%
39 France8.6%
40 Hungary7.0%
41 Belgium5.1%

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 = -0.793298 X +6.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -39515.587010 X +44952.609
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -11.222364 X +80.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.804190 X +1.447
Correlation coefficient (r)0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.992102 X +10.733
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001