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Question: How satisfied are you in your (main) job?
Choices: "Completely satisfied" "Very satisfied" "Fairly satisfied" "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied" "Fairly dissatisfied" "Very dissatisfied" "Completely dissatisfied"
Average score (as "Completely satisfied"=6 "Very satisfied"=5 "Fairly satisfied"=4 "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied"=3 "Fairly dissatisfied"=2 "Very dissatisfied"=1 "Completely dissatisfied"=0)
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark468.9%
2 Cyprus465.6%
3 Philippines460.9%
4 Switzerland447.8%
5 Israel445.4%
6 Netherlands442.8%
7 Spain439.9%
8 United States434.7%
9 New Zealand426.9%
10 Sweden425.1%
11 Norway422.1%
12 Bangladesh419.3%
13 Italy416.8%
13 Portugal416.8%
15 Germany416.3%
16 Czech Republic413.2%
17 Canada412.6%
17 United Kingdom412.6%
19 Poland411.0%
20 France408.0%
21 Bulgaria404.6%
22 Slovenia395.3%
23 Japan 387.1%
24 Russian Federation385.0%
25 Hungary381.8%

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 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.056651 X +2.048
Correlation coefficient (r)0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 36679.460476 X -113631.577
Correlation coefficient (r)0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.784255 X +63.391
Correlation coefficient (r)0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.574764 X -0.772
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.885064 X +50.771
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.565
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.319