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Question: Please think about your present job (or your last one if you don't have one now). If you compare this job to the job your father had when you were <14/15/16>, would you say that the level of status of your job is (or was)...
Choices: "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" "About equal" "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" "I never had a job" "I don't know what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"
Data: % of "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal63.0%
2 France57.4%
2 Spain57.4%
4 Israel53.2%
5 Australia51.1%
6 Poland49.4%
7 United States47.8%
8 Canada46.6%
9 Hungary44.5%
10 United Kingdom44.1%
11 New Zealand44.0%
12 Slovakia43.2%
13 Austria42.9%
14 Norway42.7%
15 Latvia39.6%
16 Germany38.3%
17 Slovenia38.2%
18 Czech Republic38.1%
19 Sweden 37.4%
20 Chile34.4%
21 Japan20.2%

Note
"I never had a job" "I Can't choose what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"/ 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 = 0.259377 X +6.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 17679.182928 X +34397.420
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 1.398228 X +79.493
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.646155 X +1.337
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -13.263563 X +15.977
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190