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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus94.7%
2 Bulgaria90.0%
3 Philippines89.9%
4 Italy88.4%
5 United States88.3%
6 Taiwan88.1%
7 Switzerland85.6%
8 South Africa84.6%
9 Austria84.4%
10 Turkiye83.9%
11 Hungary83.2%
12 Iceland82.6%
13 Argentina81.8%
13 Lithuania81.8%
15 Czech Republic81.7%
16 Slovakia81.6%
17 Poland81.1%
18 New Zealand81.0%
19 Chile79.6%
20 Republic of Korea79.4%
21 Portugal78.9%
22 Russian Federation78.4%
23 China78.0%
23 Croatia78.0%
25 Ukraine76.8%
26 United Kingdom76.7%
27 Germany76.3%
28 Australia76.0%
29 Latvia75.9%
30 Norway75.0%
31 Belgium74.7%
32 Japan 73.4%
33 Israel72.6%
34 Spain72.0%
35 Finland71.1%
36 Slovenia70.8%
37 Venezuela70.3%
38 Sweden68.5%
39 Estonia66.3%
40 France56.2%
41 Denmark45.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -2.626663 X +8.502
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -55462.616175 X +78856.915
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -16.219889 X +90.862
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.178864 X +1.771
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.989184 X +12.834
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003