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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 8-10
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland 22.1%
2 Venezuela16.4%
3 Israel15.1%
4 United States14.4%
5 Belgium14.2%
6 New Zealand13.7%
7 Iceland13.5%
8 Croatia12.4%
9 Switzerland12.3%
10 Germany11.8%
11 Poland11.3%
12 Austria11.1%
13 Norway10.9%
14 Australia10.8%
14 Philippines10.8%
16 Estonia10.7%
16 Sweden10.7%
18 Denmark10.5%
19 Latvia9.3%
20 Russian Federation9.1%
21 South Africa8.9%
22 Turkiye8.6%
23 Lithuania8.5%
24 Ukraine8.4%
25 Argentina8.0%
26 United Kingdom7.2%
27 Portugal7.0%
28 Cyprus6.5%
29 Slovenia6.4%
30 Bulgaria5.9%
30 Republic of Korea5.9%
32 Hungary5.7%
33 France5.2%
34 Spain5.1%
35 Slovakia5.0%
36 Japan4.8%
37 Chile4.7%
38 China4.6%
39 Italy4.1%
40 Czech Republic3.7%
41 Taiwan3.4%

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 = 7.143304 X +5.777
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 213626.202703 X +15245.014
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.806708 X +78.342
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.408351 X +1.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -3.683143 X +13.488
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001