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Question: Would you say that you earn...? If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" "What I deserve" "More than I deserve" "Much more than I deserve" "Never worked"
Data: % of "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria81.7%
2 Slovakia81.5%
3 Russian Federation81.2%
4 Chile80.7%
5 Portugal79.3%
6 Poland75.2%
7 Hungary73.4%
8 Sweden71.3%
9 Slovenia68.9%
10 Japan 68.3%
11 Cyprus67.4%
12 Israel65.0%
13 Spain64.8%
14 Philippines63.5%
15 Latvia63.2%
16 Czech Republic59.8%
17 United States59.7%
18 United Kingdom58.3%
19 Norway57.6%
20 France51.5%
21 New Zealand50.9%
22 Germany50.8%
23 Australia43.8%
24 Austria41.4%

Note
Those who answer "Never worked"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.619202 X +8.224
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -115604.636064 X +112475.062
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.591
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.349

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -18.236594 X +90.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.469
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.220

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.445928 X +1.949
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.063816 X +8.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003