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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 1-3
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile45.7%
2 Portugal45.1%
3 Republic of Korea38.1%
4 France36.3%
5 Italy35.8%
6 Turkiye35.5%
7 Lithuania31.7%
8 Slovenia29.6%
9 Hungary25.2%
10 Japan 24.6%
11 Czech Republic23.2%
12 Israel23.0%
13 United Kingdom22.8%
14 Slovakia22.5%
15 Estonia22.4%
16 Switzerland21.2%
17 Poland20.7%
18 Spain20.6%
19 Germany17.8%
20 New Zealand17.3%
21 Latvia16.8%
22 United States15.7%
23 Australia15.3%
23 Denmark15.3%
25 Finland14.2%
26 Iceland13.3%
27 Norway13.2%
28 Belgium12.1%
29 Austria12.0%
30 Sweden11.7%

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 = -3.730127 X +7.555
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -140095.192171 X +75961.837
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -4.159004 X +81.145
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.668588 X +1.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.393476 X +11.832
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016