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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany56.7%
2 Italy51.0%
3 Chile46.6%
4 United States43.3%
5 Austria39.3%
6 New Zealand37.7%
7 Slovenia35.1%
8 France34.1%
9 Australia28.2%
10 United Kingdom26.7%
11 Iceland26.6%
12 Lithuania24.8%
13 Israel24.7%
14 Sweden23.2%
15 Czech Republic20.4%
16 Japan 20.1%
17 Switzerland19.8%
18 Norway18.1%
19 Denmark16.8%
20 Finland12.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.021030 X +7.553
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -62292.648057 X +71091.278
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.298608 X +82.542
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.435531 X +1.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -6.969222 X +12.558
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058