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Question: How much of your past work experience and /or job skills can you make use of in your present job?
Choices: "Almost none" "A little" "A lot" "Almost all"
Data: % of "A lot" "Almost all"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden87.8%
2 Germany82.4%
3 Switzerland81.4%
4 Denmark74.1%
5 Slovenia73.4%
6 New Zealand72.6%
7 Norway69.5%
8 United States69.1%
9 Czech Republic68.8%
10 Canada68.3%
11 Cyprus67.0%
12 Bulgaria65.9%
13 Hungary65.3%
14 United Kingdom64.3%
15 Russian Federation62.1%
16 Philippines61.7%
17 France61.0%
18 Italy60.8%
19 Netherlands60.0%
20 Bangladesh55.6%
21 Israel55.4%
22 Poland55.3%
23 Japan 50.9%
24 Portugal50.5%
25 Spain41.7%

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 = 3.170431 X +4.451
Correlation coefficient (r)0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 115953.305787 X -34055.211
Correlation coefficient (r)0.472
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.223

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 5.803341 X +75.604
Correlation coefficient (r)0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.037707 X +1.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.010
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 10.765337 X +2.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074