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Question: Please think about your present job (or your last one if you don't have one now). If you compare this job to the job your father had when you were <14/15/16>, would you say that the level of status of your job is (or was)...
Choices: "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" "About equal" "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" "I never had a job" "I don't know what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"
Data: % of "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China71.4%
2 Portugal56.9%
3 France53.1%
4 Lithuania52.0%
5 Australia50.2%
6 Poland50.0%
7 Cyprus48.4%
8 Finland48.2%
8 Slovakia48.2%
10 Spain47.2%
11 Italy47.1%
12 Denmark46.8%
13 Switzerland46.6%
14 Norway45.8%
14 United States45.8%
16 South Africa45.4%
17 Austria44.4%
18 Sweden44.3%
19 Croatia44.0%
20 Israel43.2%
20 New Zealand43.2%
22 Belgium43.1%
23 United Kingdom42.5%
24 Bulgaria41.5%
25 Estonia40.2%
26 Germany39.9%
27 Slovenia39.2%
28 Venezuela39.1%
29 Ukraine38.6%
30 Philippines38.0%
31 Republic of Korea37.7%
32 Chile37.2%
33 Latvia37.1%
34 Argentina36.7%
35 Russian Federation36.2%
36 Turkiye35.3%
37 Taiwan34.4%
38 Czech Republic34.3%
39 Hungary34.1%
40 Iceland26.3%
41 Japan 22.2%

Note
"I never had a job" "I Can't choose what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"/ 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 = 0.916889 X +6.058
Correlation coefficient (r)0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 22021.618729 X +26095.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 6.133178 X +75.591
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.899730 X +2.018
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -7.957613 X +13.930
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016