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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%
3 United States27.6%
4 United Kingdom26.2%
5 Germany23.1%
7 Italy20.6%
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 data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.596620 X +6.985
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.707
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.500

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -40738.326411 X +61855.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 6.654321 X +79.657
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.825710 X +1.733
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 14.975450 X +5.053
Correlation coefficient (r)0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255