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Question: How important do you personally think job security is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain98.2%
2 Germany97.8%
3 United Kingdom96.5%
4 Hungary96.3%
5 Slovenia96.2%
6 Israel95.9%
7 Portugal94.6%
7 United States94.6%
9 Italy94.5%
10 Norway94.3%
11 New Zealand94.2%
12 Switzerland94.1%
13 France92.9%
14 Sweden92.1%
15 Poland90.9%
16 Canada89.9%
17 Czech Republic89.4%
18 Netherlands89.0%
19 Japan 84.6%
20 Denmark79.6%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.811783 X +9.386
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -42663.073850 X +89493.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.718066 X +83.852
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.102912 X +0.515
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -7.974892 X +16.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017