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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:
28 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela93.9%
2 Bulgaria93.7%
3 Germany90.6%
4 Israel89.1%
5 New Zealand88.7%
6 Taiwan87.2%
7 Suriname86.9%
8 Russian Federation86.2%
9 Austria86.0%
10 Italy85.0%
11 Croatia84.1%
12 Thailand83.1%
13 Finland82.3%
14 Chile81.4%
15 Sweden80.2%
16 Australia79.2%
17 United States78.4%
18 Philippines78.1%
19 Norway75.8%
20 Lithuania75.4%
21 Iceland73.7%
22 Switzerland73.1%
23 United Kingdom72.5%
24 Japan 70.6%
25 Czech Republic70.1%
26 Slovenia69.8%
27 France68.2%
28 South Africa68.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 210 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.463140 X +7.765
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -81181.995946 X +103960.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -10.775558 X +86.856
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.510210 X +1.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -18.807822 X +26.275
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062