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Question: Please think about your present job (or your last one if you don't have one now). If you compare this job to the job your father had when you were <14/15/16>, would you say that the level of status of your job is (or was)...
Choices: "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" "About equal" "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" "I never had a job" "I don't know what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"
Data: % of "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France53.1%
2 Australia50.2%
3 Italy47.1%
4 United States45.8%
5 Sweden44.3%
6 United Kingdom42.5%
7 Germany39.9%
8 Republic of Korea37.7%
9 Japan 22.2%

Note
"I never had a job" "I Can't choose what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"/ 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 = 3.191034 X +5.379
Correlation coefficient (r)0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 54213.772695 X +26413.742
Correlation coefficient (r)0.392
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.041542 X +85.757
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.543623 X +0.812
Correlation coefficient (r)0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -20.217215 X +22.810
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084