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Question: How important do you personally think is it for a job to involve personal contact with other people?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela80.3%
2 Austria45.2%
3 Suriname45.1%
4 Belgium38.4%
4 Chile38.4%
6 Switzerland37.5%
7 France36.4%
7 Israel36.4%
9 Slovenia34.5%
10 Germany34.0%
11 Mexico33.9%
12 Georgia33.1%
13 Denmark32.6%
14 Iceland32.4%
15 Philippines31.1%
16 Spain30.2%
17 India30.0%
18 New Zealand29.2%
19 South Africa28.2%
20 Sweden27.5%
21 Norway27.2%
22 Slovakia25.1%
23 Czech Republic23.6%
24 Latvia23.4%
25 Australia23.3%
26 Finland23.1%
27 United States22.0%
28 United Kingdom21.1%
29 Russian Federation20.8%
30 Lithuania18.0%
31 Taiwan17.8%
32 Poland17.6%
33 Hungary17.3%
34 Estonia16.7%
35 Croatia16.2%
36 China13.6%
37 Japan 13.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 201 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -0.133352 X +6.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -9043.496260 X +38231.414
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -4.332177 X +78.702
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.430503 X +1.309
Correlation coefficient (r)0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -10.459205 X +14.219
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058