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Question: In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and groups which tend to be towards the bottom. If you think about the family that you grew up in, where did they fit in then?
Choices: Bottom 1 <---> 10
Data: % of 1-3
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile45.7%
2 Portugal45.1%
3 Republic of Korea38.1%
4 France36.3%
5 Italy35.8%
6 Turkiye35.5%
7 Lithuania31.7%
8 Slovenia29.6%
9 Hungary25.2%
10 Japan 24.6%
11 Czech Republic23.2%
12 Israel23.0%
13 United Kingdom22.8%
14 Slovakia22.5%
15 Estonia22.4%
16 Switzerland21.2%
17 Poland20.7%
18 Spain20.6%
19 Germany17.8%
20 New Zealand17.3%
21 Latvia16.8%
22 United States15.7%
23 Australia15.3%
23 Denmark15.3%
25 Finland14.2%
26 Iceland13.3%
27 Norway13.2%
28 Belgium12.1%
29 Austria12.0%
30 Sweden11.7%

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 = -4.455882 X +7.757
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -130620.028009 X +73377.205
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.588
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.346

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.546969 X +81.093
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.277985 X +1.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.194861 X +13.778
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000