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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is interesting"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany82.6%
3 Canada75.2%
4 France 74.4%
5 United States74.0%
6 Italy73.1%
7 United Kingdom70.9%
8 Japan57.3%

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 = 2.870217 X +4.503
Correlation coefficient (r)0.752
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.566

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 90959.612741 X -15211.576
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -14.768561 X +92.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.951822 X +0.784
Correlation coefficient (r)0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -12.291762 X +18.372
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077