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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country only students from the best secondary schools have a good chance to obtain a university education.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye60.8%
2 Republic of Korea52.8%
3 France46.0%
4 Hungary42.0%
5 Chile39.4%
6 Switzerland38.4%
7 Poland37.0%
8 Estonia36.0%
9 Czech Republic34.7%
10 Belgium33.6%
11 Germany31.1%
12 Slovakia29.8%
13 Lithuania29.3%
14 United Kingdom29.2%
15 Israel27.8%
16 Portugal27.6%
17 Slovenia24.9%
18 Latvia24.8%
19 Australia24.4%
20 Austria22.9%
21 Spain22.3%
22 Italy21.2%
23 United States21.1%
24 Japan17.4%
25 Finland 13.6%
25 Iceland13.6%
27 Sweden11.7%
28 Denmark11.5%
28 New Zealand11.5%
30 Norway9.3%

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 = -3.190675 X +7.586
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -96012.550393 X +70399.605
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.680092 X +82.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.114252 X +1.622
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.030140 X +10.866
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001