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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:
28 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria94.9%
2 Venezuela94.6%
3 Austria92.4%
4 Israel91.6%
5 New Zealand91.4%
6 Germany90.2%
7 Taiwan89.4%
8 United States88.6%
9 Croatia88.2%
10 Russian Federation88.1%
11 Sweden86.6%
12 Italy85.6%
13 Switzerland85.5%
14 Iceland83.9%
15 Slovenia83.5%
16 Philippines82.5%
17 Finland82.4%
17 Suriname82.4%
19 Chile79.0%
20 Lithuania78.9%
21 Czech Republic77.2%
22 United Kingdom77.1%
23 Australia75.0%
24 Japan 74.5%
25 Norway72.7%
26 France68.1%
27 Thailand67.8%
28 South Africa66.5%

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 = 0.286738 X +6.354
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 9482.549261 X +30832.415
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.325351 X +78.487
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.482218 X +1.345
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -18.163245 X +26.196
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064