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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country only students from the best secondary schools have a good chance to obtain a university education.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea52.8%
2 France 46.0%
3 Germany31.1%
4 United Kingdom29.2%
5 Australia24.4%
6 Italy21.2%
7 United States21.1%
8 Japan17.4%
9 Sweden11.7%

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 = -1.383872 X +7.019
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -44250.553612 X +60784.851
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.392
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.536478 X +81.498
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.807654 X +1.713
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.344
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 13.841420 X +7.264
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145