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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria93.6%
2 Cyprus90.5%
3 United States86.8%
4 Austria85.6%
5 Germany85.5%
6 Italy85.0%
7 Chile84.4%
7 Turkiye84.4%
9 Slovakia84.3%
10 South Africa83.7%
11 Taiwan83.1%
12 Australia82.1%
13 Russian Federation81.6%
14 New Zealand81.4%
15 Finland81.2%
15 Poland81.2%
17 Spain81.1%
18 Hungary80.6%
18 Sweden80.6%
20 Czech Republic80.2%
20 Portugal80.2%
22 Argentina80.0%
23 Croatia79.7%
24 Switzerland79.2%
25 Lithuania79.0%
26 France77.9%
27 China77.5%
28 Ukraine77.3%
29 United Kingdom76.6%
30 Latvia76.1%
31 Norway76.0%
32 Venezuela75.8%
33 Japan 75.7%
34 Estonia74.6%
35 Israel73.1%
36 Iceland72.0%
37 Philippines70.5%
38 Republic of Korea70.2%
39 Belgium69.5%
40 Denmark66.9%
41 Slovenia65.9%

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 = -3.223862 X +9.006
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -57949.717859 X +81469.964
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -16.068616 X +90.954
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.191324 X +2.575
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -13.201642 X +20.960
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022