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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 4-7
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden77.6%
2 Austria76.9%
3 Norway75.9%
4 Spain74.3%
5 Denmark74.1%
6 Latvia73.9%
7 Australia73.8%
8 Belgium73.6%
9 Czech Republic73.1%
9 Iceland73.1%
11 Slovakia72.5%
12 Bulgaria72.4%
13 Cyprus72.1%
14 Japan70.6%
15 Germany70.3%
16 United Kingdom70.0%
17 United States69.9%
18 Hungary69.1%
19 New Zealand69.0%
19 Russian Federation69.0%
21 Poland68.0%
22 Estonia66.9%
23 Argentina66.7%
24 Switzerland66.6%
25 Philippines64.1%
26 Slovenia64.0%
27 Finland 63.7%
28 Venezuela63.6%
29 Israel62.0%
30 South Africa61.8%
31 Croatia61.1%
32 Ukraine60.8%
33 Italy60.0%
34 Lithuania59.9%
35 France58.5%
36 Republic of Korea56.0%
37 Turkiye55.9%
38 Chile49.5%
39 Portugal47.9%
40 Taiwan45.5%
41 China39.9%

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 = 3.650739 X +4.039
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 107311.786593 X -35524.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 8.194715 X +73.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.436172 X +1.919
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.585830 X +11.431
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001