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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:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela87.9%
2 France70.8%
3 Iceland64.9%
4 Switzerland61.2%
5 Austria60.2%
6 Belgium58.5%
7 Denmark56.0%
8 Israel55.5%
9 Sweden53.7%
10 Georgia52.9%
11 Latvia52.6%
12 Australia51.8%
12 Germany51.8%
14 United States51.6%
15 Finland51.4%
16 Spain49.1%
17 Mexico48.2%
18 Suriname47.7%
19 Slovenia46.2%
20 Norway45.5%
21 United Kingdom45.4%
22 Estonia44.7%
23 Chile44.6%
24 Poland44.3%
25 South Africa43.3%
26 Croatia42.1%
27 Russian Federation42.0%
28 Czech Republic41.0%
29 New Zealand40.8%
30 Lithuania40.7%
31 Philippines39.6%
32 Slovakia37.8%
33 India37.1%
34 Taiwan31.2%
35 Hungary26.7%
36 Japan 21.7%
37 China16.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 201 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.551814 X +5.774
Correlation coefficient (r)0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 60209.363642 X +7007.558
Correlation coefficient (r)0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 6.457762 X +74.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 0.859950 X +1.317
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -7.441037 X +14.717
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033