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Question: In addition to your main job, do you do any other work for additional income?
Choices: "No" "Yes, mostly as an employee" "Yes, mostly on a self-employed basis" "Yes, other"
Data: % of "Yes, mostly as an employee" "Yes, mostly on a self-employed basis" "Yes, other"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia30.8%
2 Philippines26.8%
3 United States24.7%
4 Australia23.3%
4 Canada23.3%
4 New Zealand23.3%
7 Mexico20.8%
8 Sweden20.5%
9 Bulgaria20.2%
10 Norway18.9%
11 Denmark18.2%
12 Slovenia17.8%
13 Finland15.9%
14 Czech Republic15.4%
15 Switzerland13.6%
16 Russian Federation13.5%
17 Hungary13.4%
18 Dominican Republic13.3%
19 Germany12.4%
20 Israel11.6%
21 United Kingdom11.2%
22 Belgium10.9%
23 Ireland10.3%
23 Taiwan10.3%
25 Republic of Korea9.8%
26 France9.7%
27 South Africa9.4%
28 Spain6.2%
29 Portugal6.1%
30 Japan 5.8%
31 Cyprus5.7%

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 = 2.137062 X +6.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 25888.930270 X +38141.564
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -20.580626 X +81.948
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.356825 X +1.476
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.606968 X +10.327
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000