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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country, only the rich can afford the costs of attending university.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ukraine65.8%
2 Russian Federation61.5%
3 Latvia59.0%
4 Republic of Korea57.2%
5 France56.6%
6 South Africa56.4%
7 China50.9%
8 Turkiye50.8%
9 Hungary50.3%
10 Poland49.6%
11 Lithuania48.8%
12 Bulgaria47.1%
13 Czech Republic46.6%
13 Estonia46.6%
15 Croatia40.9%
16 Taiwan39.1%
17 Slovakia38.6%
18 Portugal38.2%
19 Chile37.7%
20 Germany35.1%
21 Australia34.2%
22 Japan 31.9%
23 Israel29.7%
24 United Kingdom29.5%
25 Slovenia28.9%
26 Argentina28.8%
27 Philippines27.3%
28 United States26.3%
29 Belgium23.3%
30 Cyprus22.8%
31 Venezuela22.1%
32 Spain20.2%
33 Italy17.9%
34 Switzerland17.4%
35 Austria16.9%
36 New Zealand16.1%
37 Sweden11.5%
38 Iceland10.8%
39 Denmark8.3%
40 Finland8.0%
41 Norway4.3%

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 = -2.758488 X +7.401
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.683
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.466

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -95969.940651 X +68600.250
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.652
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.425

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -17.852308 X +84.362
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.298218 X +1.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 12.770894 X +6.119
Correlation coefficient (r)0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167