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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy47.5%
2 Slovenia35.1%
3 Austria32.5%
4 Chile32.4%
5 Germany29.0%
6 United States28.9%
7 Israel20.2%
8 Lithuania19.7%
9 Czech Republic18.0%
10 Iceland16.7%
11 Japan 16.3%
12 New Zealand15.9%
13 Norway15.1%
14 United Kingdom14.7%
15 Australia13.6%
16 Sweden13.5%
17 Denmark10.3%
18 Switzerland10.0%
19 Finland7.8%
20 France7.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.324988 X +7.494
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -84635.758282 X +68746.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.581176 X +82.469
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.485615 X +1.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.006425 X +13.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008