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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 the same number of hours and earn the same money"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark75.6%
2 Norway73.5%
3 United Kingdom70.9%
4 Switzerland69.8%
5 Netherlands69.3%
6 Germany69.1%
7 Sweden66.3%
8 France65.1%
9 New Zealand63.7%
10 Spain63.4%
11 Canada61.4%
11 Cyprus61.4%
13 Slovenia60.7%
14 Japan 60.3%
15 Italy59.7%
16 United States57.4%
17 Czech Republic56.9%
18 Hungary56.7%
19 Portugal50.7%
20 Israel50.5%
21 Philippines44.1%
22 Poland41.6%
23 Bangladesh38.3%
24 Bulgaria31.2%
25 Russian Federation22.7%

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 = 4.041122 X +4.183
Correlation coefficient (r)0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 136831.158354 X -37521.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.702
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.493

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 28.499651 X +62.957
Correlation coefficient (r)0.813
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.661

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.608155 X +2.007
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.044459 X +11.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017