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Question: How important is coming from a wealthy family for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea45.9%
2 Italy37.2%
3 United States30.5%
4 Germany28.8%
5 Australia21.6%
6 United Kingdom15.0%
7 Sweden13.5%
8 Japan12.4%
9 France 10.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.467681 X +6.978
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -15974.376742 X +52069.987
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.818558 X +82.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.775901 X +1.909
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.704
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.496

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 13.752599 X +7.898
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124