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Question: How important do you personally think being useful to society is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
4 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela88.7%
2 Chile45.5%
3 Suriname45.4%
4 Mexico 44.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 29 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -2.095930 X +7.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.964
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.929

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -16695.937989 X +18230.801
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.684
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.468

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -5.536163 X +75.599
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 0.706263 X +1.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -24.569364 X +24.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253