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Question: Is it just or unjust ? right or wrong ? that people with higher incomes can buy better education for their children than people with lower incomes?
Choices: "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right" "Neither just nor unjust, mixed feelings" "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Data: % of "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy75.1%
2 Germany75.0%
3 France 73.5%
4 Sweden69.3%
5 Australia52.7%
6 United States44.5%
7 Republic of Korea41.4%
8 Japan41.1%
9 United Kingdom36.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.775798 X +6.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6175.310641 X +51741.848
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.082314 X +80.757
Correlation coefficient (r)0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.650213 X +1.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.239561 X +19.231
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234