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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In this country, people have the same chances to enter university, regardless of their gender, ethnicity or social background.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway78.6%
2 Slovenia74.7%
3 Iceland73.0%
4 New Zealand72.5%
5 Denmark70.1%
6 Finland68.3%
7 Japan 66.7%
8 United States65.2%
9 Sweden64.3%
10 Australia63.9%
11 Switzerland63.3%
12 Austria59.2%
13 Belgium58.4%
14 Latvia58.3%
15 Spain57.6%
16 Republic of Korea57.4%
17 Israel56.7%
18 Estonia56.5%
18 Slovakia56.5%
20 Lithuania54.5%
21 United Kingdom53.3%
22 Czech Republic52.4%
23 Turkiye51.6%
24 Italy47.1%
25 Poland45.1%
26 Chile45.0%
27 France44.7%
28 Germany44.4%
29 Hungary43.9%
30 Portugal41.3%

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 = 3.256132 X +4.793
Correlation coefficient (r)0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 144729.428659 X -40826.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.629
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.396

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 12.781111 X +72.744
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.252602 X +1.443
Correlation coefficient (r)0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 11.354978 X +3.973
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077