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Question: How important is having political connections 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 China55.5%
2 Slovakia46.4%
3 Italy42.5%
4 Israel40.1%
5 Bulgaria39.7%
6 Croatia38.9%
7 Slovenia38.6%
8 Hungary38.4%
9 Ukraine37.5%
10 Austria37.1%
11 Poland36.8%
12 Turkiye34.0%
13 Cyprus31.0%
14 South Africa30.6%
15 Latvia30.5%
16 Russian Federation29.1%
17 Spain27.9%
18 Lithuania27.0%
19 Republic of Korea26.0%
20 Philippines25.4%
21 Venezuela25.2%
22 Czech Republic23.6%
23 Taiwan23.4%
24 Argentina23.3%
25 Portugal22.5%
26 Chile22.4%
27 United States20.2%
28 Estonia17.0%
29 Belgium16.3%
30 Iceland16.1%
31 Germany14.2%
32 Australia11.4%
33 Switzerland10.7%
34 Japan 10.0%
35 Norway9.4%
36 France8.3%
37 United Kingdom7.2%
38 Sweden6.8%
39 Finland6.2%
40 New Zealand4.2%
41 Denmark3.8%

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 = -2.905320 X +7.170
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.562
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.316

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -110512.688343 X +62889.752
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -17.025311 X +82.451
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.098331 X +1.656
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.780808 X +11.195
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005