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Question: How important is knowing the right people 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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea78.1%
2 Poland73.3%
3 Turkiye72.2%
4 Slovakia69.9%
5 Israel68.1%
6 Slovenia67.3%
7 Germany64.8%
8 Austria60.5%
9 Italy58.9%
10 Czech Republic56.3%
11 Hungary55.1%
12 Chile54.9%
13 Estonia54.8%
14 Spain52.4%
15 Belgium51.5%
16 Latvia51.4%
17 Switzerland 50.1%
18 United States46.4%
19 Portugal45.1%
20 Lithuania44.5%
21 Sweden40.1%
22 Australia38.9%
23 Iceland37.2%
24 Denmark34.5%
25 Norway34.0%
26 United Kingdom33.0%
27 Finland29.9%
28 New Zealand26.4%
29 France22.5%
30 Japan14.6%

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 = -1.484285 X +7.422
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -59457.518947 X +72798.831
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.061477 X +84.172
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.046798 X +1.567
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.664562 X +11.401
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004