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Question: All things considered, how satisfied are you with 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"=7 "Very satisfied"=6 "Fairly satisfied"=5 "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied"=4 "Fairly dissatisfied"=3 "Very dissatisfied"=2 "Completely dissatisfied"=1)
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.80
2 Venezuela5.64
3 Switzerland5.57
4 Iceland5.53
4 Philippines5.53
6 Argentina5.50
7 Denmark5.42
8 Austria5.40
9 United States5.39
10 Norway5.37
11 Netherlands5.33
12 Slovenia5.30
13 Canada5.29
13 Chile5.29
15 Belgium5.26
15 Israel5.26
17 Sweden5.24
18 Germany5.22
19 Bulgaria5.21
19 Poland5.21
21 Australia5.19
22 Croatia5.18
22 Finland5.18
24 Ireland5.15
24 United Kingdom5.15
26 Portugal5.12
26 Slovakia5.12
28 France5.10
28 Spain5.10
30 India5.09
31 Hungary5.07
31 Taiwan5.07
33 Latvia5.05
34 South Africa5.01
35 Turkiye5.00
36 Czech Republic4.99
37 Russian Federation4.92
38 Republic of Korea4.80
39 Lithuania4.73
40 China4.64
41 Japan 4.56

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 0.914090 X +1.728
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 26031.529718 X -97651.688
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.626642 X +81.265
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.629290 X -1.599
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -8.463969 X +54.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193