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Question: How important do you personally think helping other people 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 Philippines89.1%
2 Slovenia88.2%
3 Portugal87.0%
4 Spain85.4%
5 Italy83.3%
6 Israel82.0%
7 Poland81.9%
8 Cyprus81.5%
9 Denmark81.2%
10 United States80.7%
11 Bangladesh78.4%
12 Netherlands77.2%
13 Canada74.1%
14 Hungary73.9%
15 New Zealand73.6%
16 United Kingdom72.9%
17 Switzerland71.0%
18 Sweden70.1%
19 Czech Republic69.7%
20 Japan 69.2%
21 Germany67.7%
22 Russian Federation67.6%
23 Bulgaria66.2%
24 Norway65.6%
25 France60.9%

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 = -0.718928 X +7.057
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -91235.434562 X +110590.340
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.671295 X +82.164
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.891604 X +0.979
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -20.778759 X +24.793
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153