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Question: How important is a person's race 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 Germany16.7%
2 Italy12.2%
3 United States11.2%
4 France 9.5%
5 United Kingdom8.7%
6 Republic of Korea8.2%
7 Australia7.6%
8 Sweden7.4%
9 Japan4.8%

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 = 1.054173 X +6.526
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 58785.214832 X +42615.262
Correlation coefficient (r)0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -34.513243 X +85.243
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.311006 X +1.359
Correlation coefficient (r)0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -53.965627 X +16.359
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145