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Question: How often do you have to do hard physical work?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Hardly ever" "Never"
Data: % of "Always" "Often"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines38.7%
2 South Africa38.5%
3 Republic of Korea34.9%
4 Latvia31.5%
5 Mexico28.7%
6 Dominican Republic28.4%
7 Spain27.8%
8 Hungary27.2%
9 Sweden26.8%
10 Russian Federation26.2%
11 Denmark26.1%
12 Portugal25.8%
13 Israel25.4%
14 Taiwan24.5%
15 United States24.3%
16 Germany24.1%
17 Finland24.0%
18 Bulgaria23.4%
19 New Zealand22.9%
20 Ireland22.5%
21 France21.5%
22 United Kingdom20.4%
23 Australia20.2%
24 Norway19.9%
25 Switzerland19.7%
26 Slovenia19.5%
27 Belgium19.2%
28 Czech Republic19.0%
29 Japan 18.8%
30 Canada18.5%
31 Cyprus11.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -3.806680 X +7.516
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -209356.893063 X +93412.001
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.455
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.207

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -58.043683 X +93.002
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.608
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.370

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.536526 X +1.063
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 24.532465 X +4.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080