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Question: In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and groups which tend to be towards the bottom. If you think about the family that you grew up in, where did they fit in then?
Choices: Bottom 1 <---> 10
Data: % of 4-7
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
3 Japan70.6%
4 Germany70.3%
5 United Kingdom70.0%
6 United States69.9%
7 Italy60.0%
8 France 58.5%

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 data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.574971 X +6.148
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 96813.881397 X -14164.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -11.993552 X +89.532
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.584333 X +1.887
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 29.067857 X -10.031
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202