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Question: How well he or she does 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 Cyprus93.7%
2 United States91.8%
3 Austria91.4%
3 Germany91.4%
5 New Zealand88.6%
6 Israel87.8%
7 Slovakia86.6%
8 Canada86.5%
9 Australia85.2%
10 Russian Federation84.5%
11 Hungary84.0%
12 Philippines83.4%
13 Sweden81.2%
14 Czech Republic80.9%
15 Portugal80.3%
16 Bulgaria80.1%
17 Latvia79.9%
18 Japan 79.8%
19 France79.6%
20 Chile77.7%
21 United Kingdom77.5%
22 Poland77.0%
23 Norway75.4%
24 Spain74.1%
25 Slovenia72.8%

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 = 0.684411 X +5.970
Correlation coefficient (r)0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 73602.394445 X -22900.872
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.898713 X +81.354
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.189104 X +0.665
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.138158 X +12.421
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002