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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 8-10
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland22.1%
2 Israel15.1%
3 United States14.4%
4 Belgium14.2%
5 New Zealand13.7%
6 Iceland13.5%
7 Switzerland12.3%
8 Germany11.8%
9 Poland11.3%
10 Austria11.1%
11 Norway10.9%
12 Australia10.8%
13 Estonia10.7%
13 Sweden10.7%
15 Denmark10.5%
16 Latvia9.3%
17 Turkiye8.6%
18 Lithuania8.5%
19 United Kingdom7.2%
20 Portugal7.0%
21 Slovenia6.4%
22 Republic of Korea5.9%
23 Hungary5.7%
24 France5.2%
25 Spain5.1%
26 Slovakia5.0%
27 Japan 4.8%
28 Chile4.7%
29 Italy4.1%
30 Czech Republic3.7%

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 = 9.257407 X +5.842
Correlation coefficient (r)0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 276474.113591 X +16755.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.148999 X +79.633
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.956513 X +1.386
Correlation coefficient (r)0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.140943 X +13.392
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000