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Question: How much responsibility goes with 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 Cyprus89.6%
2 Israel89.0%
3 Germany87.9%
4 Slovakia87.3%
5 Austria87.1%
6 Portugal86.0%
7 Russian Federation85.6%
8 Chile84.5%
9 United States82.4%
10 New Zealand81.4%
11 Bulgaria80.3%
12 Australia79.6%
13 Philippines78.6%
14 Canada77.8%
15 Sweden76.1%
16 Czech Republic75.6%
17 United Kingdom75.5%
18 Hungary73.1%
18 Japan 73.1%
20 France72.6%
21 Latvia72.3%
22 Norway68.5%
23 Poland68.1%
24 Slovenia66.6%
25 Spain65.6%

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 = -0.626437 X +7.029
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12387.763766 X +47810.058
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.788679 X +84.286
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.248048 X +0.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -8.596995 X +16.575
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024