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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 "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan54.4%
2 Canada28.8%
3 Sweden26.2%
3 United States26.2%
5 United Kingdom25.5%
6 Australia21.6%
7 France 20.6%
8 Germany17.9%

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 = -2.168381 X +7.370
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.665
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.442

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -53698.378313 X +67697.977
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 8.263328 X +79.428
Correlation coefficient (r)0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.141520 X +1.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.785
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.616

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 7.586486 X +8.591
Correlation coefficient (r)0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125