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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China70.9%
2 South Africa56.3%
3 Poland49.8%
4 Croatia47.0%
5 Turkiye46.9%
6 Bulgaria45.9%
6 Republic of Korea45.9%
8 Ukraine44.8%
9 Hungary42.5%
10 Latvia39.9%
11 Russian Federation38.5%
12 Chile37.7%
13 Italy37.2%
14 Portugal35.5%
15 Slovakia35.4%
16 Cyprus35.2%
17 Israel34.8%
18 Philippines34.2%
19 Taiwan33.5%
20 Spain32.4%
21 Slovenia31.4%
22 Austria31.1%
23 United States30.5%
24 Germany28.8%
25 Estonia26.6%
26 Czech Republic24.2%
27 Argentina21.6%
27 Australia21.6%
29 Venezuela21.5%
30 Lithuania21.0%
31 United Kingdom15.0%
32 Belgium14.5%
33 Sweden13.5%
34 Switzerland12.6%
35 Japan12.4%
36 Norway10.8%
37 Iceland10.6%
38 France10.2%
39 New Zealand9.1%
40 Denmark8.6%
41 Finland 6.4%

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 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -3.602785 X +7.515
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.690
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.476

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -104358.663414 X +66190.202
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.666
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.444

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -15.722300 X +83.481
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.062163 X +1.612
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.514586 X +12.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003