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Question: How important is being born a man or a woman 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 Africa57.8%
2 Philippines48.5%
3 Venezuela24.9%
4 China24.2%
5 Italy18.9%
6 Israel18.7%
7 Hungary18.6%
8 Austria18.0%
9 Bulgaria17.2%
10 Slovenia17.0%
11 Slovakia16.8%
12 Czech Republic16.7%
13 Poland14.4%
14 Germany14.2%
15 Croatia13.3%
16 Argentina13.0%
16 Russian Federation13.0%
18 Turkiye12.5%
19 Chile12.3%
20 Switzerland11.8%
21 United States10.9%
22 Ukraine10.8%
23 Australia10.3%
24 Sweden10.1%
25 Republic of Korea10.0%
26 Spain9.7%
27 United Kingdom9.5%
28 France9.4%
29 Portugal9.3%
30 Iceland9.2%
31 Belgium9.0%
32 Cyprus7.3%
33 Norway6.8%
34 Estonia6.6%
34 Lithuania6.6%
36 Taiwan6.3%
37 Denmark6.1%
38 Japan 5.6%
39 Finland5.5%
40 Latvia5.2%
40 New Zealand5.2%

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 = -2.402382 X +6.785
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -97723.599637 X +49140.298
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -31.322387 X +82.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.624
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.389

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.165511 X +1.325
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.716948 X +10.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000