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Question: How important is hard work for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States89.2%
3 United Kingdom80.7%
5 France 66.1%
6 Italy62.0%
7 Germany60.1%
8 Japan57.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.398731 X +5.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 109028.707281 X -25328.070
Correlation coefficient (r)0.820
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.672

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -13.476048 X +90.893
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.742
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.551

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.026664 X +0.787
Correlation coefficient (r)0.589
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.347

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 10.845673 X +1.794
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140