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Question: How important do you personally think high income is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia95.4%
2 Spain95.2%
3 Israel94.3%
4 Hungary92.9%
5 Republic of Korea92.6%
6 Portugal92.0%
7 Mexico91.9%
8 Slovenia91.4%
9 Czech Republic84.7%
10 France82.6%
11 Canada82.3%
12 Finland81.8%
13 Germany81.7%
14 Belgium79.6%
15 United States79.4%
16 Ireland78.4%
17 Japan78.1%
18 Sweden 74.3%
19 United Kingdom73.4%
20 Australia71.3%
21 Norway69.8%
22 New Zealand69.5%
23 Denmark59.5%
24 Switzerland58.8%

Note
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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.580958 X +8.888
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -160546.826185 X +181443.543
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.715
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.511

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -11.173515 X +90.166
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.257033 X +1.333
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.482037 X +7.787
Correlation coefficient (r)0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010