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Question: How well he or she does the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
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 Germany 90.2%
2 United States88.6%
4 Italy85.6%
5 United Kingdom77.1%
7 Japan74.5%
8 France68.1%

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 = 0.893652 X +5.810
Correlation coefficient (r)0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 96336.536017 X -27462.362
Correlation coefficient (r)0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -15.408644 X +93.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.589
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.347

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.705524 X +2.068
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.784685 X +10.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002