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Question: How important do you personally think being useful to society is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bangladesh92.2%
2 Philippines90.1%
3 Bulgaria87.2%
4 Portugal87.1%
5 Slovenia87.0%
6 Spain86.5%
7 Poland84.2%
8 Cyprus81.0%
8 Israel81.0%
10 Hungary80.3%
11 Italy79.5%
12 United States78.7%
13 Japan 77.1%
14 Russian Federation75.8%
15 Denmark75.3%
16 Canada72.8%
17 Netherlands70.3%
18 New Zealand69.7%
19 Switzerland69.4%
20 United Kingdom68.7%
21 Czech Republic68.6%
22 France66.0%
23 Sweden64.3%
24 Norway63.9%
25 Germany63.0%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.684652 X +10.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.646
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.417

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -194670.645764 X +190793.495
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -26.208454 X +99.501
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.730827 X +1.095
Correlation coefficient (r)0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -15.806628 X +21.152
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112