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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea45.9%
2 Italy37.2%
3 United States30.5%
4 Germany28.8%
5 Australia21.6%
6 United Kingdom15.0%
7 Sweden13.5%
8 Japan 12.4%
9 France10.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.532835 X +7.103
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -25316.108810 X +55523.217
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.529289 X +82.516
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.770261 X +1.892
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.753
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.567

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 21.585580 X +9.052
Correlation coefficient (r)0.428
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.183