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Question: How important do you personally think job security is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain98.2%
2 Germany97.8%
3 Cyprus97.5%
4 Bangladesh97.0%
5 United Kingdom96.5%
6 Bulgaria96.3%
6 Hungary96.3%
8 Slovenia96.2%
9 Israel95.9%
10 Philippines95.8%
11 Portugal94.6%
11 United States94.6%
13 Italy94.5%
14 Norway94.3%
15 New Zealand94.2%
16 Switzerland94.1%
17 France92.9%
18 Sweden92.1%
19 Poland90.9%
20 Canada89.9%
21 Czech Republic89.4%
22 Russian Federation89.1%
23 Netherlands89.0%
24 Japan 84.6%
25 Denmark79.6%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.736986 X +11.861
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.325
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -114720.164496 X +148288.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -14.054594 X +92.482
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.158690 X +0.576
Correlation coefficient (r)0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -33.400008 X +40.161
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125