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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 8-10
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States14.4%
2 Germany11.8%
5 United Kingdom7.2%
7 France 5.2%
8 Japan4.8%
9 Italy4.1%

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 = 4.342897 X +6.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.656
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.430

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 360861.684057 X +21696.950
Correlation coefficient (r)0.904
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.817

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -50.572117 X +85.554
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.928
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.861

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.071006 X +1.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 45.210460 X +5.734
Correlation coefficient (r)0.520
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.270