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Question: Would you say that you earn...? If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" "What I deserve" "More than I deserve" "Much more than I deserve" "Never worked"
Data: % of "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Italy61.1%
3 Japan 60.1%
4 France58.7%
5 United Kingdom53.6%
6 United States51.2%
8 Germany49.9%

Note
Those who answer "Never worked"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -4.643963 X +9.121
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.799
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.638

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -261383.585699 X +196030.080
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 36.677414 X +61.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.959813 X +2.591
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -21.802925 X +21.472
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082