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Question: If you were looking actively, how easy or difficult do you think it would be for you to find an acceptable job?
Choices: "Very easy" "Fairly easy" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Very easy" "Fairly easy"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States52.2%
2 Norway42.4%
3 Denmark37.9%
4 Philippines37.0%
5 New Zealand34.1%
6 Canada32.5%
7 Netherlands29.9%
8 Israel25.5%
9 Sweden24.5%
10 Czech Republic22.8%
11 United Kingdom22.0%
12 Poland20.5%
13 Cyprus19.0%
14 France18.0%
15 Switzerland17.8%
16 Italy13.2%
17 Slovenia13.0%
18 Bangladesh12.5%
19 Portugal11.1%
20 Bulgaria10.9%
21 Germany10.7%
22 Spain10.6%
23 Hungary9.7%
24 Russian Federation5.6%
25 Japan 5.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = 3.274429 X +5.806
Correlation coefficient (r)0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 120998.280052 X +15241.931
Correlation coefficient (r)0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.992945 X +78.731
Correlation coefficient (r)0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.072064 X +1.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.304082 X +9.296
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001