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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 8-10
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland22.1%
2 Venezuela16.4%
3 Israel15.1%
4 United States14.4%
5 Belgium14.2%
6 New Zealand13.7%
7 Iceland13.5%
8 Croatia12.4%
9 Switzerland12.3%
10 Germany11.8%
11 Poland11.3%
12 Austria11.1%
13 Norway10.9%
14 Australia10.8%
14 Philippines10.8%
16 Estonia10.7%
16 Sweden10.7%
18 Denmark10.5%
19 Latvia9.3%
20 Russian Federation9.1%
21 South Africa8.9%
22 Turkiye8.6%
23 Lithuania8.5%
24 Ukraine8.4%
25 Argentina8.0%
26 United Kingdom7.2%
27 Portugal7.0%
28 Cyprus6.5%
29 Slovenia6.4%
30 Bulgaria5.9%
30 Republic of Korea5.9%
32 Hungary5.7%
33 France5.2%
34 Spain5.1%
35 Slovakia5.0%
36 Japan 4.8%
37 Chile4.7%
38 China4.6%
39 Italy4.1%
40 Czech Republic3.7%
41 Taiwan3.4%

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 = 6.899512 X +5.813
Correlation coefficient (r)0.416
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.173

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 230269.027013 X +14256.736
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 5.669204 X +77.698
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 3.492394 X +1.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 6.793014 X +9.868
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003