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Question: If you had only one of these three choices, which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "Work longer hours and earn more money" "Work the same number of hours and earn the same money" "Work fewer hours and earn less money"
Data: % of "Work longer hours and earn more money"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation76.5%
2 Bulgaria67.7%
3 Bangladesh60.4%
4 Poland55.9%
5 Philippines48.5%
6 Portugal45.1%
7 Israel43.5%
8 Hungary38.1%
9 Czech Republic37.6%
10 Slovenia36.1%
11 Italy33.3%
12 United States32.5%
13 Spain29.9%
14 New Zealand29.5%
15 Canada28.9%
16 Cyprus26.3%
17 Japan 23.6%
18 United Kingdom22.8%
19 Germany21.9%
20 France20.0%
21 Netherlands19.2%
22 Sweden17.2%
23 Switzerland13.4%
24 Norway11.6%
25 Denmark10.8%

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 = -3.092716 X +7.563
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.691
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.477

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -111171.308646 X +79121.385
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.744
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.554

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -21.842066 X +86.805
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.813
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.661

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.427136 X +1.511
Correlation coefficient (r)0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.225988 X +8.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009