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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 4-7
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden77.6%
2 Austria76.9%
3 Norway75.9%
4 Spain74.3%
5 Denmark74.1%
6 Latvia73.9%
7 Australia73.8%
8 Belgium73.6%
9 Czech Republic73.1%
9 Iceland73.1%
11 Slovakia72.5%
12 Bulgaria72.4%
13 Cyprus72.1%
14 Japan 70.6%
15 Germany70.3%
16 United Kingdom70.0%
17 United States69.9%
18 Hungary69.1%
19 New Zealand69.0%
19 Russian Federation69.0%
21 Poland68.0%
22 Estonia66.9%
23 Argentina66.7%
24 Switzerland66.6%
25 Philippines64.1%
26 Slovenia64.0%
27 Finland63.7%
28 Venezuela63.6%
29 Israel62.0%
30 South Africa61.8%
31 Croatia61.1%
32 Ukraine60.8%
33 Italy60.0%
34 Lithuania59.9%
35 France58.5%
36 Republic of Korea56.0%
37 Turkiye55.9%
38 Chile49.5%
39 Portugal47.9%
40 Taiwan45.5%
41 China39.9%

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 = 2.782307 X +4.622
Correlation coefficient (r)0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 114409.804369 X -39638.719
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 8.316504 X +72.724
Correlation coefficient (r)0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.362640 X +1.391
Correlation coefficient (r)0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 3.142772 X +8.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003