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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Differences in income in the country are too large.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia96.7%
2 Portugal95.9%
3 Slovakia93.7%
4 Hungary93.2%
5 Chile 92.2%
6 Slovenia91.0%
7 Israel89.8%
8 Poland89.3%
8 Spain89.3%
10 Czech Republic87.8%
11 France86.8%
12 Austria86.3%
13 Germany82.2%
14 United Kingdom81.3%
15 New Zealand73.2%
16 Norway72.5%
17 Sweden71.1%
18 Australia70.9%
19 Japan69.1%
20 Canada68.2%
21 United States66.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.090392 X +8.409
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -159584.938746 X +174992.911
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.726
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.527

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -17.089767 X +94.329
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.355791 X +1.328
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -7.136940 X +16.017
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067