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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland98.8%
2 Ireland97.8%
2 Norway97.8%
4 France97.4%
5 New Zealand97.1%
6 Australia96.8%
6 Denmark96.8%
8 Canada96.4%
8 Israel96.4%
10 United Kingdom95.9%
11 Finland95.8%
12 Sweden94.9%
13 Belgium94.8%
14 Germany94.6%
14 Portugal94.6%
16 United States94.5%
17 Slovenia94.2%
18 Mexico92.5%
19 South Africa91.8%
20 Republic of Korea91.1%
21 Dominican Republic90.6%
22 Spain90.3%
23 Latvia89.8%
24 Bulgaria88.8%
25 Philippines87.9%
26 Czech Republic86.9%
27 Taiwan85.1%
28 Russian Federation85.0%
29 Hungary80.9%
30 Cyprus76.6%
30 Japan 76.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 6.165369 X +0.918
Correlation coefficient (r)0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 260998.334896 X -197731.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.579
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.335

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 29.114335 X +51.955
Correlation coefficient (r)0.305
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.093

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.073216 X +0.696
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.773879 X +11.288
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000