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Question: Please think about your present job (or your last one if you don't have one now). If you compare this job to the job your father had when you were <14/15/16>, would you say that the level of status of your job is (or was)...
Choices: "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" "About equal" "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" "I never had a job" "I don't know what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"
Data: % of "Much higher than your father's" "Higher" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal 63.0%
2 Cyprus57.6%
3 France57.4%
3 Spain57.4%
5 Israel53.2%
6 Australia51.1%
7 Poland49.4%
8 United States47.8%
9 Bulgaria47.3%
10 Canada46.6%
11 Hungary44.5%
12 United Kingdom44.1%
13 New Zealand44.0%
14 Slovakia43.2%
15 Austria42.9%
16 Norway42.7%
17 Russian Federation41.4%
18 Philippines40.9%
19 Latvia39.6%
20 Germany38.3%
21 Slovenia38.2%
22 Czech Republic38.1%
23 Sweden37.4%
24 Chile34.4%
25 Japan20.2%

Note
"I never had a job" "I Can't choose what my father did/ father never had a job/ never knew father/ father deceased"/ 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 = 0.198167 X +6.483
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8218.837344 X +33599.740
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.407801 X +78.385
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.187371 X +1.534
Correlation coefficient (r)0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -19.413034 X +21.022
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116