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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 Suriname 45.4%
4 Mexico44.3%

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 = -19450.831562 X +20888.103
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -8.589626 X +78.733
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 0.699002 X +1.571
Correlation coefficient (r)0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

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