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Question: How important is having a good education yourself 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 Germany92.1%
2 United States88.0%
3 Australia80.7%
4 Italy75.2%
5 United Kingdom74.9%
6 France65.9%
7 Sweden64.2%
8 Republic of Korea57.7%
9 Japan 36.7%

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 = 1.951570 X +5.359
Correlation coefficient (r)0.661
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.437

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 40560.699940 X +20836.813
Correlation coefficient (r)0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.029729 X +88.286
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.731
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.534

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.626340 X +1.027
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.604978 X +23.816
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134