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Question: How important is having a good education yourself 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 South Africa94.0%
2 Germany92.1%
3 Poland91.7%
4 Philippines89.8%
5 China88.4%
6 United States88.0%
7 Cyprus82.3%
8 Turkiye81.9%
9 Australia80.7%
10 Bulgaria80.1%
11 Chile79.6%
12 Estonia78.6%
13 Austria78.5%
14 Switzerland75.8%
15 Italy75.2%
16 Croatia74.9%
16 United Kingdom74.9%
18 Latvia73.8%
19 Belgium72.9%
20 New Zealand71.9%
21 Israel71.6%
22 Ukraine71.1%
23 Slovakia70.9%
24 Iceland70.4%
25 Slovenia70.2%
26 Spain69.5%
27 Argentina69.2%
28 Russian Federation68.9%
29 Taiwan66.5%
30 France65.9%
31 Sweden64.2%
32 Venezuela63.4%
33 Lithuania62.2%
34 Denmark58.8%
35 Portugal58.0%
36 Republic of Korea57.7%
37 Hungary53.9%
38 Finland53.5%
39 Norway50.0%
40 Czech Republic48.2%
41 Japan 36.7%

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 = -1.255707 X +7.346
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -35322.879727 X +60733.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -13.865612 X +88.142
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.634256 X +1.178
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -5.548370 X +14.472
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018