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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland22.1%
2 Israel15.1%
3 United States14.4%
4 Belgium14.2%
5 New Zealand13.7%
6 Iceland13.5%
7 Switzerland12.3%
8 Germany11.8%
9 Poland11.3%
10 Austria11.1%
11 Norway10.9%
12 Australia10.8%
13 Estonia10.7%
13 Sweden10.7%
15 Denmark10.5%
16 Latvia9.3%
17 Turkiye8.6%
18 Lithuania8.5%
19 United Kingdom7.2%
20 Portugal7.0%
21 Slovenia6.4%
22 Republic of Korea5.9%
23 Hungary5.7%
24 France5.2%
25 Spain5.1%
26 Slovakia5.0%
27 Japan4.8%
28 Chile 4.7%
29 Italy4.1%
30 Czech Republic3.7%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 8.469676 X +5.884
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 295351.244733 X +15344.214
Correlation coefficient (r)0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 12.437971 X +78.998
Correlation coefficient (r)0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.541865 X +1.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 13.746311 X +9.273
Correlation coefficient (r)0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019