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Question: Is it just or unjust ? right or wrong ? that people with higher incomes can buy better education for their children than people with lower incomes?
Choices: "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right" "Neither just nor unjust, mixed feelings" "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Data: % of "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Iceland78.7%
2 Belgium77.4%
2 Turkiye77.4%
4 Slovenia76.6%
5 Hungary75.4%
6 Italy75.1%
7 Germany75.0%
8 France73.5%
9 Latvia72.2%
10 Sweden69.3%
11 Austria68.5%
12 Denmark67.8%
13 Switzerland65.3%
14 Poland63.2%
15 Slovakia62.3%
16 Chile62.0%
17 Finland 61.9%
18 Norway60.6%
19 Spain58.8%
20 Czech Republic58.4%
21 Lithuania58.1%
22 Portugal57.4%
23 Estonia56.9%
24 Australia52.7%
25 Israel49.1%
26 United States44.5%
27 Republic of Korea41.4%
28 Japan41.1%
29 New Zealand36.3%
30 United Kingdom36.0%

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 = -0.185665 X +6.801
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -14566.358450 X +52330.335
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -4.177631 X +82.757
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.232053 X +1.447
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.060935 X +13.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024