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Question: How hard he or she works at the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus93.5%
2 United States88.6%
3 Philippines82.9%
4 New Zealand82.7%
5 Hungary81.1%
6 Portugal80.6%
7 Germany79.5%
8 Austria79.3%
9 Canada79.2%
10 Russian Federation78.0%
11 Poland77.8%
12 Czech Republic77.2%
13 Slovakia76.9%
14 Australia75.8%
15 United Kingdom75.7%
16 Norway75.6%
17 Israel74.2%
18 Spain73.8%
19 Bulgaria71.9%
20 Latvia70.7%
21 Japan 68.4%
22 Chile67.4%
23 Slovenia65.1%
24 Sweden61.9%
25 France55.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.963396 X +7.267
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 11973.000508 X +29009.368
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -13.125383 X +88.893
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.176533 X +1.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.707920 X +17.931
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044