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Question: How important is knowing the right people 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 Korea78.1%
2 Germany64.8%
3 Italy58.9%
4 United States46.4%
5 Sweden40.1%
6 Australia38.9%
7 United Kingdom33.0%
8 France 22.5%
9 Japan14.6%

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 = -0.333456 X +6.774
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6269.815304 X +51019.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.431923 X +82.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.867904 X +1.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.562
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.316

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 6.937010 X +8.122
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084