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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Differences in income in the country are too large.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary97.1%
2 Portugal95.4%
3 Slovenia95.3%
4 Latvia94.8%
5 Turkiye94.7%
6 Italy93.8%
7 Estonia93.2%
8 Slovakia92.0%
9 Lithuania91.6%
10 Spain91.2%
11 France91.0%
12 Republic of Korea90.2%
13 Germany89.6%
14 Austria88.3%
14 Poland88.3%
16 Iceland88.2%
17 Chile87.5%
18 Switzerland87.4%
19 Czech Republic84.4%
20 Israel83.9%
21 Japan 77.9%
22 United Kingdom77.1%
23 Belgium74.7%
24 Australia74.0%
25 Sweden73.1%
26 Finland71.5%
27 United States66.5%
28 New Zealand64.9%
29 Denmark62.4%
30 Norway62.2%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.783948 X +9.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -134010.327272 X +155622.749
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.666
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.444

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.538617 X +88.519
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.186590 X +1.728
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.546832 X +9.677
Correlation coefficient (r)0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008