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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 "Lower" "Much lower than your father's" among those who have ever had a job and know their fathers' job
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 54.4%
2 Chile32.8%
3 Canada28.8%
4 New Zealand26.2%
4 Sweden26.2%
4 United States26.2%
7 Israel25.5%
7 United Kingdom25.5%
9 Latvia24.6%
10 Czech Republic24.3%
11 Poland24.1%
11 Slovakia24.1%
13 Norway23.7%
14 Australia21.6%
15 France20.6%
15 Hungary20.6%
17 Slovenia19.7%
18 Austria18.3%
19 Germany17.9%
20 Portugal15.5%
21 Spain12.9%

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 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -1.070682 X +6.992
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 5843.001954 X +40180.866
Correlation coefficient (r)0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 7.557981 X +78.590
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.005394 X +1.600
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 3.423657 X +11.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006