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Question: How important do you personally think good opportunities for advancement 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 Mexico97.3%
2 Israel95.5%
3 South Africa94.5%
4 Dominican Republic94.1%
5 Philippines93.6%
6 Portugal92.2%
7 Republic of Korea91.1%
8 Spain88.6%
9 Bulgaria87.2%
10 United States87.1%
11 Ireland86.2%
12 New Zealand83.2%
13 Australia83.0%
14 Canada82.7%
15 Belgium79.8%
16 Slovenia78.5%
17 United Kingdom77.9%
18 France75.5%
19 Germany73.8%
20 Taiwan70.4%
21 Hungary67.5%
22 Latvia66.2%
23 Switzerland63.9%
24 Russian Federation63.1%
25 Czech Republic56.1%
26 Cyprus51.8%
27 Norway51.6%
28 Sweden49.1%
29 Finland46.0%
30 Denmark40.9%
31 Japan 26.7%

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 = -1.035255 X +7.349
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -38385.089701 X +70511.135
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.553484 X +86.599
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.812944 X +1.082
Correlation coefficient (r)0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.657474 X +12.545
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009