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Question: How important is being born a man or a woman 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 Italy18.9%
2 Germany14.2%
3 United States10.9%
4 Australia10.3%
5 Sweden10.1%
6 Republic of Korea10.0%
7 United Kingdom9.5%
8 France 9.4%
9 Japan5.6%

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 = 0.386695 X +6.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -22618.874699 X +50737.674
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.664450 X +83.105
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.805622 X +1.573
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -65.809499 X +18.416
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249