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Question: How much of your past work experience and /or job skills can you make use of in your present job?
Choices: "Almost none" "A little" "A lot" "Almost all"
Data: % of "A lot" "Almost all"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Germany82.4%
3 United States69.1%
4 Canada68.3%
5 United Kingdom64.3%
6 France 61.0%
7 Italy60.8%
8 Japan50.9%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.173478 X +5.165
Correlation coefficient (r)0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 85537.230749 X -5085.010
Correlation coefficient (r)0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -13.459001 X +90.297
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.620
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.384

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.489093 X +1.155
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.434197 X +11.048
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005