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Question: In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and groups which tend to be towards the bottom. If you think about the family that you grew up in, where did they fit in then?
Choices: Bottom 1 <---> 10
Data: % of 4-7
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden77.6%
2 Austria76.9%
3 Norway75.9%
4 Spain74.3%
5 Denmark74.1%
6 Latvia73.9%
7 Australia 73.8%
8 Belgium73.6%
9 Czech Republic73.1%
9 Iceland73.1%
11 Slovakia72.5%
12 Japan70.6%
13 Germany70.3%
14 United Kingdom70.0%
15 United States69.9%
16 Hungary69.1%
17 New Zealand69.0%
18 Poland68.0%
19 Estonia66.9%
20 Switzerland66.6%
21 Slovenia64.0%
22 Finland63.7%
23 Israel62.0%
24 Italy60.0%
25 Lithuania59.9%
26 France58.5%
27 Republic of Korea56.0%
28 Turkiye55.9%
29 Chile49.5%
30 Portugal47.9%

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 = 4.184775 X +3.906
Correlation coefficient (r)0.498
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.248

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 121257.487746 X -38553.483
Correlation coefficient (r)0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.252912 X +79.658
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.121196 X +1.652
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.603573 X +12.422
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001