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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country only students from the best secondary schools have a good chance to obtain a university education.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye60.8%
2 South Africa53.9%
3 Republic of Korea52.8%
4 Ukraine51.3%
5 China49.7%
6 Russian Federation47.2%
7 France46.0%
8 Hungary42.0%
9 Philippines39.7%
10 Chile39.4%
11 Switzerland38.4%
12 Poland37.0%
13 Taiwan36.7%
14 Estonia36.0%
15 Czech Republic34.7%
16 Argentina34.1%
17 Belgium33.6%
18 Croatia33.4%
19 Bulgaria33.2%
20 Germany31.1%
21 Slovakia29.8%
22 Lithuania29.3%
23 United Kingdom29.2%
24 Israel27.8%
25 Portugal27.6%
26 Slovenia24.9%
27 Latvia24.8%
28 Australia24.4%
29 Austria22.9%
30 Spain22.3%
31 Venezuela21.5%
32 Italy21.2%
33 United States21.1%
34 Japan 17.4%
35 Cyprus14.7%
36 Finland13.6%
36 Iceland13.6%
38 Sweden11.7%
39 Denmark11.5%
39 New Zealand11.5%
41 Norway9.3%

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 = -3.424939 X +7.504
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.667
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.445

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -104777.346360 X +67753.710
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -20.187145 X +84.409
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.066161 X +1.611
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 9.046952 X +7.736
Correlation coefficient (r)0.227
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052