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Question: How important is coming from a wealthy family 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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany26.6%
2 Australia20.9%
3 United States20.5%
4 United Kingdom19.2%
5 Sweden19.0%
6 Canada14.8%
7 Japan 12.2%
8 France11.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.910516 X +6.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 106216.518768 X +34143.908
Correlation coefficient (r)0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -19.317734 X +85.149
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.103278 X +1.549
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -10.728891 X +14.993
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043