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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal93.0%
2 Bulgaria90.6%
3 Mexico90.2%
4 United States89.7%
5 Dominican Republic89.2%
6 Ireland88.9%
7 Israel86.6%
8 Republic of Korea85.8%
9 South Africa85.7%
10 Philippines83.5%
11 Taiwan83.4%
12 Switzerland82.6%
13 Slovenia81.9%
14 Spain81.6%
15 Canada80.5%
16 Hungary80.4%
17 Australia79.3%
18 Russian Federation75.9%
19 New Zealand75.7%
20 Japan 75.2%
21 Germany73.5%
22 Cyprus70.7%
23 Latvia70.0%
24 Czech Republic68.6%
25 United Kingdom68.2%
26 France68.1%
27 Denmark65.9%
28 Belgium65.8%
29 Norway62.1%
30 Sweden59.3%
31 Finland54.0%

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 = -3.135464 X +9.016
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -68805.503782 X +95492.278
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -19.555737 X +93.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.869029 X +1.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.233879 X +14.627
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011