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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China79.1%
2 Taiwan78.8%
3 Republic of Korea78.1%
4 Poland73.3%
5 Turkiye72.2%
6 Bulgaria71.7%
7 Slovakia69.9%
8 Croatia69.4%
9 Israel68.1%
10 Slovenia67.3%
11 South Africa66.0%
12 Argentina65.3%
13 Germany64.8%
14 Ukraine60.9%
15 Austria60.5%
16 Russian Federation59.3%
17 Italy58.9%
18 Venezuela57.9%
19 Czech Republic56.3%
20 Hungary55.1%
21 Chile54.9%
22 Estonia54.8%
23 Spain52.4%
24 Belgium51.5%
25 Latvia51.4%
26 Switzerland50.1%
27 Cyprus49.5%
28 United States46.4%
29 Portugal45.1%
30 Lithuania44.5%
31 Philippines43.0%
32 Sweden40.1%
33 Australia38.9%
34 Iceland37.2%
35 Denmark34.5%
36 Norway34.0%
37 United Kingdom33.0%
38 Finland29.9%
39 New Zealand26.4%
40 France22.5%
41 Japan 14.6%

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 = -1.978116 X +7.506
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -71827.080377 X +73849.859
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -13.204958 X +85.192
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.048220 X +1.657
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.312476 X +10.341
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000