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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 4-7
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden77.6%
2 Austria76.9%
3 Norway75.9%
4 Spain74.3%
5 Denmark74.1%
6 Latvia73.9%
7 Australia73.8%
8 Belgium73.6%
9 Czech Republic73.1%
9 Iceland73.1%
11 Slovakia72.5%
12 Japan 70.6%
13 Germany70.3%
14 United Kingdom70.0%
15 United States69.9%
16 Hungary69.1%
17 New Zealand69.0%
18 Poland68.0%
19 Estonia66.9%
20 Switzerland66.6%
21 Slovenia64.0%
22 Finland63.7%
23 Israel62.0%
24 Italy60.0%
25 Lithuania59.9%
26 France58.5%
27 Republic of Korea56.0%
28 Turkiye55.9%
29 Chile49.5%
30 Portugal47.9%

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 = 3.300116 X +4.468
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 130418.497959 X -44333.648
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.777435 X +78.310
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.308604 X +1.383
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.422989 X +7.603
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007