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Question: How important is knowing the right people 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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus81.8%
2 Slovakia75.0%
3 Poland74.8%
4 Austria71.3%
5 Israel69.5%
6 Spain66.1%
7 Bulgaria63.3%
8 Portugal61.9%
8 Russian Federation61.9%
10 Chile61.1%
11 Germany60.9%
12 Slovenia60.0%
13 Latvia59.5%
14 Sweden56.5%
15 Philippines55.9%
16 Canada51.0%
17 Czech Republic48.8%
18 United States47.2%
19 Hungary41.9%
20 United Kingdom41.7%
21 France41.5%
22 Australia39.7%
23 New Zealand36.5%
24 Norway33.3%
25 Japan 19.7%

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 = -0.737794 X +6.945
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -61466.509639 X +72026.423
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.025186 X +83.937
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.293
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.102778 X +1.593
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -7.203126 X +13.799
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068