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Question: How important is coming from a wealthy family 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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland62.4%
2 Cyprus60.8%
3 Portugal 55.9%
4 Bulgaria54.9%
5 Spain54.4%
6 Israel50.9%
7 Slovakia47.1%
8 Philippines44.6%
9 Russian Federation43.5%
10 Chile40.3%
11 Latvia37.1%
12 Hungary34.7%
13 Austria29.5%
14 Slovenia26.7%
15 Germany26.6%
16 Australia20.9%
17 United States20.5%
18 Czech Republic19.4%
19 United Kingdom19.2%
20 Sweden19.0%
21 New Zealand16.9%
22 Canada14.8%
23 Japan12.2%
24 France11.7%
25 Norway10.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.086842 X +7.269
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -81057.456914 X +64350.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.652
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.425

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.619495 X +82.676
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.139230 X +1.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.765643 X +15.581
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105