Do children think its likely they will have a better life than their parents?: Overall

About this data

Children aged 9-17 were asked: “When you grow up, how likely do you think it is that you will have a better life than your parents?”

The options to choose from were:

• Very likely
• Fairly likely
• Neither likely nor unlikely
• Fairly unlikely
• Very unlikely

The chart below shows what proportion of children chose each option, but with ‘Very likely’ and ‘Fairly likely’ combined into ‘Likely’, and ‘Very unlikely’ and ‘Fairly unlikely’ combined into ‘Unlikely’.

Do children think it is likely they will have a better life than their parents?