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Question: How important is a person's race 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 Africa50.2%
2 China38.0%
3 Philippines33.4%
4 Hungary29.2%
5 Israel23.2%
6 Slovakia18.4%
7 Bulgaria17.8%
8 Czech Republic17.6%
9 Austria17.5%
10 Germany16.7%
11 Turkiye16.3%
12 Norway14.2%
13 Taiwan13.6%
14 Chile12.3%
15 Cyprus12.2%
15 Italy12.2%
17 Belgium11.9%
18 Estonia11.8%
19 United States11.2%
20 Slovenia10.7%
21 Spain10.5%
22 Portugal10.2%
23 Croatia10.1%
23 Poland10.1%
25 France9.5%
26 Iceland9.0%
27 United Kingdom8.7%
28 Argentina8.6%
28 Switzerland8.6%
30 Russian Federation8.3%
31 Republic of Korea8.2%
32 Ukraine8.1%
33 Venezuela7.7%
34 Australia7.6%
35 Lithuania7.5%
36 Sweden7.4%
37 Denmark6.3%
38 Latvia5.8%
39 New Zealand5.4%
40 Japan 4.8%
41 Finland4.1%

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 = -2.248089 X +6.755
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -81819.686823 X +46599.328
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -26.585890 X +81.828
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 1.785784 X +1.390
Correlation coefficient (r)0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.473879 X +10.705
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001