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Question: Please think about your present job (or your last one if you don't have one now). If you compare this job to the job your father had when you were <14/15/16>, would you say that the level of status of your job is (or was)...
Choices: "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" "About equal" "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" "I never had a job" "I don't know what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"
Data: % of "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 57.4%
2 Australia51.1%
3 United States47.8%
4 Canada46.6%
5 United Kingdom44.1%
6 Germany38.3%
7 Sweden37.4%
8 Japan20.2%

Note
"I never had a job" "I Can't choose what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.522544 X +6.118
Correlation coefficient (r)0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 55685.256596 X +28982.282
Correlation coefficient (r)0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.739703 X +85.030
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.164515 X +1.092
Correlation coefficient (r)0.791
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.626

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -3.501610 X +12.190
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026