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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "Without trade unions the working conditions of employees would be much worse than they are"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
3 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic 70.5%
2 Mexico61.0%
3 Uruguay58.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 30 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -7.412148 X +11.072
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.969
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.939

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -70460.600052 X +60190.841
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.800
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.640

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -24.657298 X +91.308
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.751
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.564

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 6.029830 X -1.982
Correlation coefficient (r)0.969
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.939

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -82.775239 X +62.250
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.654
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.428