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Question: How well he or she does 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:
3 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela 94.6%
2 Suriname82.4%
3 Chile79.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 30 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data2
Regression equation
Y = -4.826923 X +10.173
Correlation coefficient (r)-1.000
Coefficient of determination (R2)1.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -66765.355657 X +65759.770
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.778
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.605

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -37.784823 X +105.876
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.608
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.370

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 2.775411 X -0.352
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -79.802853 X +80.108
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280