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Question: How important is having well-educated parents for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye64.9%
2 Poland61.1%
3 Chile53.6%
4 Spain53.1%
5 Germany50.3%
6 United States49.9%
7 Estonia46.6%
8 France43.9%
9 Israel40.7%
9 Republic of Korea40.7%
11 Latvia39.4%
12 Australia39.2%
13 Belgium39.1%
14 Slovakia38.0%
15 Austria36.2%
16 Italy34.8%
16 Slovenia34.8%
18 Hungary34.6%
19 Portugal33.8%
20 United Kingdom32.2%
21 Switzerland31.6%
22 Iceland30.2%
23 Lithuania28.0%
24 New Zealand26.0%
25 Sweden21.1%
26 Czech Republic20.1%
27 Denmark18.3%
28 Japan 17.0%
29 Norway15.0%
30 Finland9.6%

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 = -2.545759 X +7.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.589
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.347

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -73611.396837 X +69927.011
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.421
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.177

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.160151 X +83.486
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.087418 X +1.558
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.083180 X +13.496
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068