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Question: How important is coming from a wealthy family 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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China70.9%
2 South Africa56.3%
3 Poland49.8%
4 Croatia47.0%
5 Turkiye46.9%
6 Bulgaria45.9%
6 Republic of Korea45.9%
8 Ukraine44.8%
9 Hungary42.5%
10 Latvia39.9%
11 Russian Federation38.5%
12 Chile37.7%
13 Italy37.2%
14 Portugal35.5%
15 Slovakia35.4%
16 Cyprus35.2%
17 Israel34.8%
18 Philippines34.2%
19 Taiwan33.5%
20 Spain32.4%
21 Slovenia31.4%
22 Austria31.1%
23 United States30.5%
24 Germany28.8%
25 Estonia26.6%
26 Czech Republic24.2%
27 Argentina21.6%
27 Australia21.6%
29 Venezuela21.5%
30 Lithuania21.0%
31 United Kingdom15.0%
32 Belgium14.5%
33 Sweden13.5%
34 Switzerland12.6%
35 Japan 12.4%
36 Norway10.8%
37 Iceland10.6%
38 France10.2%
39 New Zealand9.1%
40 Denmark8.6%
41 Finland6.4%

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 = -3.143923 X +7.391
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.700
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.490

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -104934.538750 X +66911.396
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.641
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.411

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -18.119961 X +83.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.253641 X +1.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.070385 X +9.888
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004