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Question: Over the past 12 months, have you had any training to improve your job skills, either at the workplace or somewhere else?
Choices: "Yes" "No"
Data: % of "Yes"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia61.1%
2 Finland60.5%
3 United States60.1%
4 United Kingdom59.7%
5 Denmark58.2%
6 New Zealand57.3%
7 Canada56.5%
8 Switzerland55.5%
9 Norway54.0%
10 Slovenia53.1%
11 Ireland51.8%
12 Belgium50.6%
13 Sweden49.0%
14 France46.3%
15 Dominican Republic40.0%
16 Mexico39.4%
16 Republic of Korea39.4%
18 Germany39.1%
19 Latvia37.4%
20 Israel36.5%
21 Japan 35.3%
22 Taiwan34.3%
23 Czech Republic33.0%
24 Hungary31.3%
25 Philippines30.2%
26 South Africa29.7%
27 Spain24.1%
28 Portugal22.0%
29 Cyprus21.7%
30 Russian Federation18.9%
31 Bulgaria13.8%

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 = 3.301145 X +5.199
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 133235.876631 X -13771.965
Correlation coefficient (r)0.689
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.475

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 19.584880 X +70.512
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.156404 X +1.751
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.743952 X +9.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006