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Question: How important is having political connections 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 Italy42.5%
2 Republic of Korea26.0%
3 United States20.2%
4 Germany14.2%
5 Australia11.4%
6 Japan10.0%
7 France 8.3%
8 United Kingdom7.2%
9 Sweden6.8%

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 = -1.778665 X +6.917
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -37195.901770 X +54310.910
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.715469 X +82.050
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.572297 X +1.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.772396 X +11.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004