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Question: In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and groups which tend to be towards the bottom. If you think about the family that you grew up in, where did they fit in then?
Choices: Bottom 1 <---> 10
Data: % of 1-3
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China55.5%
2 Taiwan51.0%
3 Chile45.7%
4 Portugal45.1%
5 Republic of Korea38.1%
6 France36.3%
7 Italy35.8%
8 Turkiye35.5%
9 Lithuania31.7%
10 Ukraine30.8%
11 Slovenia29.6%
12 South Africa29.2%
13 Croatia26.5%
14 Argentina25.4%
15 Hungary25.2%
15 Philippines25.2%
17 Japan24.6%
18 Czech Republic23.2%
19 Israel23.0%
20 United Kingdom22.8%
21 Slovakia22.5%
22 Estonia22.4%
23 Russian Federation21.9%
24 Bulgaria21.8%
25 Cyprus21.4%
26 Switzerland21.2%
27 Poland20.7%
28 Spain20.6%
29 Venezuela20.0%
30 Germany17.8%
31 New Zealand17.3%
32 Latvia16.8%
33 United States15.7%
34 Australia15.3%
34 Denmark15.3%
36 Finland 14.2%
37 Iceland13.3%
38 Norway13.2%
39 Belgium12.1%
40 Austria12.0%
41 Sweden11.7%

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 = -3.519199 X +7.319
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -104005.820792 X +61039.117
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -6.512801 X +80.382
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.074871 X +1.649
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.244684 X +13.446
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000