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Question: How important is knowing the right people 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 Taiwan79.6%
2 Slovenia67.8%
3 Croatia67.7%
4 Venezuela66.5%
5 Italy65.7%
6 Bulgaria65.4%
7 South Africa62.4%
8 Russian Federation61.5%
9 Austria60.9%
10 Germany60.2%
11 Israel59.2%
12 Suriname58.2%
13 Chile54.0%
14 Philippines49.6%
15 Czech Republic47.0%
16 United States46.4%
17 Thailand44.0%
18 Iceland41.6%
19 Switzerland41.2%
20 New Zealand39.3%
21 Denmark34.9%
22 Sweden34.3%
23 United Kingdom33.9%
24 Norway33.6%
25 Finland 33.5%
26 Australia33.0%
27 Lithuania29.6%
28 France14.5%
29 Japan13.3%

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 = -1.919460 X +7.557
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -70762.918822 X +73136.162
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.452
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.204

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -15.373360 X +86.043
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.649213 X +1.406
Correlation coefficient (r)0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -1.253635 X +13.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001