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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Differences in income in the country are too large.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy93.8%
2 France 91.0%
3 Republic of Korea90.2%
4 Germany89.6%
5 Japan77.9%
6 United Kingdom77.1%
7 Australia74.0%
8 Sweden73.1%
9 United States66.5%

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 = -2.257788 X +8.467
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -118927.410382 X +145138.308
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 10.373422 X +73.482
Correlation coefficient (r)0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.326232 X +2.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.548225 X +19.778
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045