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Question: How hard he or she works at the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy88.4%
2 United States88.3%
4 United Kingdom76.7%
5 Germany76.3%
7 Japan73.4%
9 France56.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.041474 X +6.563
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 51936.401870 X +10507.851
Correlation coefficient (r)0.365
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.133

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.602314 X +87.370
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.883628 X +2.175
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.016182 X +10.857
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004