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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 "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal56.9%
2 France53.1%
3 Lithuania52.0%
4 Australia50.2%
5 Poland50.0%
6 Finland48.2%
6 Slovakia48.2%
8 Spain47.2%
9 Italy47.1%
10 Denmark46.8%
11 Switzerland46.6%
12 Norway45.8%
12 United States45.8%
14 Austria 44.4%
15 Sweden44.3%
16 Israel43.2%
16 New Zealand43.2%
18 Belgium43.1%
19 United Kingdom42.5%
20 Estonia40.2%
21 Germany39.9%
22 Slovenia39.2%
23 Republic of Korea37.7%
24 Chile37.2%
25 Latvia37.1%
26 Turkiye35.3%
27 Czech Republic34.3%
28 Hungary34.1%
29 Iceland26.3%
30 Japan22.2%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.564504 X +6.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 40211.007233 X +26148.823
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.172140 X +80.103
Correlation coefficient (r)0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.273858 X +1.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -4.826563 X +12.638
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008