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Question: How important is having well-educated parents 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 China81.2%
2 South Africa70.2%
3 Philippines65.9%
4 Turkiye64.9%
5 Poland61.1%
6 Bulgaria54.1%
7 Chile53.6%
8 Spain53.1%
9 Germany50.3%
10 United States49.9%
11 Estonia46.6%
12 Croatia46.4%
13 France43.9%
14 Venezuela43.7%
15 Ukraine41.0%
16 Israel40.7%
16 Republic of Korea40.7%
18 Argentina39.4%
18 Latvia39.4%
20 Australia39.2%
21 Belgium39.1%
22 Slovakia38.0%
23 Russian Federation37.3%
24 Austria36.2%
25 Cyprus35.1%
26 Italy34.8%
26 Slovenia34.8%
28 Hungary34.6%
29 Taiwan34.4%
30 Portugal33.8%
31 United Kingdom32.2%
32 Switzerland31.6%
33 Iceland30.2%
34 Lithuania28.0%
35 New Zealand26.0%
36 Sweden21.1%
37 Czech Republic20.1%
38 Denmark18.3%
39 Japan 17.0%
40 Norway15.0%
41 Finland9.6%

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 = -2.587719 X +7.481
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.588
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.346

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -84703.374389 X +69252.136
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -16.763926 X +84.928
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.473654 X +1.442
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -5.119566 X +12.551
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022