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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Differences in income in the country are too large.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy93.8%
2 France91.0%
3 Republic of Korea90.2%
4 Germany89.6%
5 Japan 77.9%
6 United Kingdom77.1%
7 Australia74.0%
8 Sweden73.1%
9 United States66.5%

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 = -2.475196 X +8.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -101311.919787 X +132008.111
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 8.142971 X +75.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.213014 X +2.457
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.301728 X +12.336
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001