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Question: All things considered, how satisfied are you with your (main) job?
Choices: "Completely satisfied" "Very satisfied" "Fairly satisfied" "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied" "Fairly dissatisfied" "Very dissatisfied" "Completely dissatisfied"
Average score (as "Completely satisfied"=6 "Very satisfied"=5 "Fairly satisfied"=4 "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied"=3 "Fairly dissatisfied"=2 "Very dissatisfied"=1 "Completely dissatisfied"=0)
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico4.78
2 Switzerland4.60
3 Austria4.47
4 Ireland4.45
5 Denmark4.43
6 United States4.32
7 Belgium4.22
8 Germany4.21
9 Norway4.20
10 New Zealand4.19
11 Sweden4.18
12 Chile4.17
13 Portugal4.16
14 Netherlands4.15
14 Slovenia4.15
16 Israel4.13
17 Hungary4.12
18 Finland4.11
19 Australia4.09
20 France4.07
20 United Kingdom4.07
22 Spain4.05
23 Slovakia3.96
24 Poland3.94
25 Czech Republic3.93
25 Japan 3.93
27 Latvia3.80

Note
Those who do not work, Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.730507 X +3.734
Correlation coefficient (r)0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 50209.244452 X -161069.389
Correlation coefficient (r)0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.781124 X +77.427
Correlation coefficient (r)0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.176558 X +0.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.772434 X +25.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080