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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan53.0%
2 Republic of Korea29.3%
3 United States27.6%
4 United Kingdom26.2%
5 Germany23.1%
6 Sweden22.3%
7 Italy20.6%
8 Australia20.2%
8 France 20.2%

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. 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 = -2.424436 X +7.280
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.584
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.341

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -48389.410214 X +61290.369
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.402878 X +80.478
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.156126 X +1.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 13.537857 X +7.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082