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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country, only the rich can afford the costs of attending university.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia59.0%
2 Republic of Korea57.2%
3 France56.6%
4 Turkiye50.8%
5 Hungary50.3%
6 Poland49.6%
7 Lithuania48.8%
8 Czech Republic46.6%
8 Estonia46.6%
10 Slovakia38.6%
11 Portugal38.2%
12 Chile37.7%
13 Germany35.1%
14 Australia34.2%
15 Japan 31.9%
16 Israel29.7%
17 United Kingdom29.5%
18 Slovenia28.9%
19 United States26.3%
20 Belgium23.3%
21 Spain20.2%
22 Italy17.9%
23 Switzerland17.4%
24 Austria16.9%
25 New Zealand16.1%
26 Sweden11.5%
27 Iceland10.8%
28 Denmark8.3%
29 Finland8.0%
30 Norway4.3%

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 = -2.461346 X +7.466
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.691
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.477

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -101019.073254 X +75333.142
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.702
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.493

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -12.744965 X +84.214
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.160578 X +1.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 5.829592 X +8.729
Correlation coefficient (r)0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052