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Question: How important is a person's race 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 Germany16.7%
2 Italy12.2%
3 United States11.2%
4 France9.5%
5 United Kingdom8.7%
6 Republic of Korea8.2%
7 Australia7.6%
8 Sweden7.4%
9 Japan 4.8%

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 = 4.036539 X +6.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 26431.041789 X +46938.223
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -33.170100 X +85.092
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.901471 X +1.382
Correlation coefficient (r)0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -50.195409 X +19.024
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076