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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain83.9%
2 Hungary82.0%
3 France80.5%
4 Austria78.2%
5 Cyprus78.1%
6 Czech Republic77.4%
7 Germany76.1%
8 Sweden74.8%
9 Slovenia74.2%
10 Bulgaria72.9%
11 Slovakia70.1%
12 Portugal69.6%
13 Norway68.2%
14 Latvia61.7%
15 Poland61.6%
16 Japan 60.0%
17 Israel59.3%
18 Russian Federation57.7%
19 Canada56.6%
20 Chile54.0%
21 New Zealand50.4%
22 Australia48.9%
23 United States48.2%
24 United Kingdom37.5%
25 Philippines13.6%

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 = -0.024503 X +6.553
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 4907.001270 X +34945.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8.282725 X +73.666
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.109254 X +2.358
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.203644 X +8.414
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007