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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? - I am willing to work harder than I have to in order to help the firm or organization I work for succeed.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.8%
2 New Zealand67.5%
3 Israel66.2%
4 Canada65.0%
5 Netherlands64.7%
6 Portugal64.6%
6 Switzerland64.6%
8 Denmark64.0%
9 United Kingdom61.4%
10 Germany61.0%
11 Hungary60.4%
12 Slovenia60.2%
13 Norway60.1%
14 Czech Republic59.2%
15 Japan 58.4%
16 Sweden50.9%
17 Spain50.1%
18 Poland46.7%
19 Italy33.8%
20 France25.8%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.813986 X +6.295
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.139777 X +6.115
Correlation coefficient (r)0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 71394.972683 X +10355.789
Correlation coefficient (r)0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.194213 X +84.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.726560 X +1.058
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.679922 X +8.223
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012