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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country, people have the same chances to enter university, regardless of their gender, ethnicity or social background.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan85.9%
2 Norway78.6%
3 Slovenia74.7%
4 China74.3%
5 Bulgaria73.0%
5 Iceland73.0%
7 New Zealand72.5%
8 Denmark70.1%
9 Finland68.3%
10 Argentina68.2%
11 Philippines66.9%
12 Japan 66.7%
13 United States65.2%
14 Cyprus64.9%
14 Venezuela64.9%
16 Sweden64.3%
17 Australia63.9%
17 South Africa63.9%
19 Switzerland63.3%
20 Austria59.2%
21 Belgium58.4%
22 Latvia58.3%
23 Spain57.6%
24 Republic of Korea57.4%
25 Israel56.7%
26 Estonia56.5%
26 Slovakia56.5%
28 Lithuania54.5%
29 Croatia54.1%
30 United Kingdom53.3%
31 Czech Republic52.4%
32 Turkiye51.6%
33 Italy47.1%
34 Poland45.1%
35 Chile45.0%
36 France44.7%
37 Germany44.4%
38 Hungary43.9%
39 Portugal41.3%
40 Russian Federation41.2%
41 Ukraine30.2%

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 = 2.045925 X +5.237
Correlation coefficient (r)0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 70848.155933 X -6499.321
Correlation coefficient (r)0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 9.318401 X +72.765
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.682078 X +1.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -6.025378 X +14.040
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016