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Question: How important is having well-educated parents 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 Germany50.3%
2 United States49.9%
3 France 43.9%
4 Republic of Korea40.7%
5 Australia39.2%
6 Italy34.8%
7 United Kingdom32.2%
8 Sweden21.1%
9 Japan17.0%

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 = 0.112626 X +6.586
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 47089.975868 X +31032.877
Correlation coefficient (r)0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12.912058 X +86.655
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.620
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.384

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.440110 X +1.324
Correlation coefficient (r)0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.423958 X +10.298
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003