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Question: How important do you personally think high income 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 Bulgaria97.6%
2 Cyprus97.4%
3 Poland96.2%
4 Hungary95.9%
5 Russian Federation95.5%
6 Slovenia93.8%
7 Israel90.5%
8 Philippines90.3%
9 Spain88.0%
10 Portugal82.4%
11 Italy81.5%
12 Germany80.7%
13 Japan 80.2%
14 United States79.6%
15 Canada78.4%
16 Czech Republic78.1%
17 France77.0%
18 United Kingdom76.4%
19 Sweden69.4%
20 Norway68.8%
21 New Zealand67.0%
22 Bangladesh61.6%
23 Switzerland60.7%
24 Netherlands58.2%
25 Denmark55.9%

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 = -1.826130 X +7.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.305
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.093

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -114572.845077 X +133018.488
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -14.719010 X +91.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.023533 X +1.638
Correlation coefficient (r)0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.558761 X +7.767
Correlation coefficient (r)0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002