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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 "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 53.0%
2 Philippines34.4%
3 Turkiye31.6%
4 Chile29.3%
4 Republic of Korea29.3%
6 Iceland29.0%
7 United States27.6%
8 Argentina27.3%
9 Ukraine26.8%
10 Taiwan26.5%
11 United Kingdom26.2%
12 Estonia25.6%
13 Croatia25.5%
14 Russian Federation25.0%
15 South Africa24.7%
16 Germany23.1%
16 Israel23.1%
16 Latvia23.1%
16 New Zealand23.1%
20 Poland22.9%
20 Venezuela22.9%
22 Czech Republic22.8%
23 Sweden22.3%
24 Norway21.4%
25 Italy20.6%
26 Hungary20.5%
27 Slovenia20.4%
28 Austria20.3%
29 Australia20.2%
29 France20.2%
31 Switzerland18.3%
32 Denmark18.0%
33 Finland17.8%
34 Lithuania16.8%
34 Spain16.8%
36 Portugal16.2%
36 Slovakia16.2%
38 Belgium16.0%
39 Bulgaria14.2%
40 China8.6%
41 Cyprus8.0%

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 = -1.581911 X +6.811
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -30449.290281 X +42474.111
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -4.396855 X +79.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.961133 X +1.413
Correlation coefficient (r)0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 9.569021 X +8.331
Correlation coefficient (r)0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018