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Question: How important is having political connections 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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Croatia56.9%
2 Italy47.4%
3 Slovenia44.4%
4 Bulgaria40.0%
5 South Africa39.3%
6 Russian Federation38.4%
7 Suriname35.5%
8 Philippines33.2%
9 Venezuela29.7%
10 Austria29.4%
11 Chile23.7%
11 Taiwan23.7%
13 Thailand19.0%
14 Lithuania17.9%
15 Iceland17.8%
16 Czech Republic17.2%
17 United States15.8%
18 Germany15.2%
19 Japan11.8%
20 Israel8.5%
21 Australia7.8%
22 United Kingdom7.7%
23 Norway7.4%
24 Denmark7.1%
25 Switzerland7.0%
26 Sweden6.9%
27 Finland 6.8%
28 New Zealand6.7%
29 France3.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.462479 X +7.368
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.651
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.424

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -116786.563804 X +64217.851
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.668
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.446

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -18.981359 X +82.884
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.577
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.333

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.164786 X +1.676
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 8.106618 X +11.638
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038