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Question: How important is coming from a wealthy family 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:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland62.4%
2 Portugal55.9%
3 Spain54.4%
4 Israel50.9%
5 Slovakia47.1%
6 Chile40.3%
7 Latvia37.1%
8 Hungary34.7%
9 Austria29.5%
10 Slovenia26.7%
11 Germany26.6%
12 Australia20.9%
13 United States20.5%
14 Czech Republic19.4%
15 United Kingdom19.2%
16 Sweden19.0%
17 New Zealand16.9%
18 Canada14.8%
19 Japan 12.2%
20 France11.7%
21 Norway10.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.786674 X +6.911
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.911945 X +6.929
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -1.063873 X +6.989
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -66211.237660 X +64737.329
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -4.106283 X +82.381
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.169433 X +1.424
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -9.347068 X +12.930
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305