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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal93.1%
2 Dominican Republic91.1%
3 United States90.5%
4 Ireland90.1%
5 Mexico89.8%
6 Israel88.8%
7 South Africa88.1%
8 Slovenia84.4%
9 Spain83.3%
10 Republic of Korea83.1%
11 Philippines82.9%
12 Switzerland82.5%
13 Bulgaria81.4%
14 Canada80.8%
15 Australia80.3%
16 Taiwan80.2%
17 New Zealand79.7%
18 Germany75.4%
19 Hungary74.5%
20 United Kingdom72.2%
21 Denmark72.1%
22 Cyprus71.5%
23 Belgium70.9%
24 Japan 68.2%
25 Latvia68.0%
26 Russian Federation67.3%
27 Sweden67.1%
28 Czech Republic66.4%
29 Norway65.0%
30 Finland64.2%
31 France61.2%

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 = -1.676423 X +7.888
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -28140.522515 X +64006.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -14.215526 X +89.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.297573 X +0.676
Correlation coefficient (r)0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.140143 X +17.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028