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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "Employees have more job security than the self-employed"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic72.6%
2 South Africa72.1%
3 Mexico70.2%
4 Republic of Korea68.2%
5 Ireland67.2%
6 Sweden66.5%
7 Japan 64.1%
8 Germany64.0%
9 Israel63.6%
10 Spain62.3%
11 Czech Republic59.3%
11 Philippines59.3%
13 Denmark58.8%
14 United Kingdom56.6%
15 Finland55.6%
16 United States52.5%
17 Australia51.8%
18 Slovenia51.5%
19 Canada50.9%
20 Latvia50.8%
20 Russian Federation50.8%
22 Portugal50.7%
23 Norway50.4%
24 France47.5%
24 Hungary47.5%
26 Taiwan46.5%
27 Switzerland46.2%
28 Bulgaria41.0%
29 Cyprus40.9%
30 Belgium37.7%
31 New Zealand36.7%

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 = -0.377047 X +6.791
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -33941.726163 X +60856.848
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -11.875609 X +85.373
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.196390 X +1.020
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.591076 X +9.135
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003