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Question: In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and groups which tend to be towards the bottom. If you think about the family that you grew up in, where did they fit in then?
Choices: Bottom 1 <---> 10
Data: % of 1-3
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China55.5%
2 Taiwan51.0%
3 Chile45.7%
4 Portugal45.1%
5 Republic of Korea38.1%
6 France36.3%
7 Italy35.8%
8 Turkiye35.5%
9 Lithuania31.7%
10 Ukraine30.8%
11 Slovenia29.6%
12 South Africa29.2%
13 Croatia26.5%
14 Argentina25.4%
15 Hungary25.2%
15 Philippines25.2%
17 Japan 24.6%
18 Czech Republic23.2%
19 Israel23.0%
20 United Kingdom22.8%
21 Slovakia22.5%
22 Estonia22.4%
23 Russian Federation21.9%
24 Bulgaria21.8%
25 Cyprus21.4%
26 Switzerland21.2%
27 Poland20.7%
28 Spain20.6%
29 Venezuela20.0%
30 Germany17.8%
31 New Zealand17.3%
32 Latvia16.8%
33 United States15.7%
34 Australia15.3%
34 Denmark15.3%
36 Finland14.2%
37 Iceland13.3%
38 Norway13.2%
39 Belgium12.1%
40 Austria12.0%
41 Sweden11.7%

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 = -2.890413 X +7.175
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -111205.573047 X +63392.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -6.747223 X +79.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.804633 X +1.828
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -3.308475 X +11.313
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004