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Question: How difficult or easy do you think it would be for you to find a job at least as good as your current one?
Choices: "Very easy" "Fairly easy" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Very easy" "Fairly easy"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic47.0%
2 United States44.5%
3 Ireland41.6%
4 Denmark36.8%
5 United Kingdom35.1%
6 Australia33.1%
7 Taiwan32.8%
8 Mexico32.3%
9 Canada31.5%
10 New Zealand31.0%
11 Spain28.1%
12 South Africa28.0%
13 Cyprus25.1%
13 Finland25.1%
13 Israel25.1%
16 Norway24.4%
17 Philippines23.4%
18 France22.1%
19 Latvia21.4%
20 Slovenia20.6%
21 Sweden19.6%
22 Republic of Korea18.6%
23 Switzerland18.4%
24 Japan 16.1%
25 Czech Republic15.0%
26 Belgium14.4%
27 Portugal14.1%
28 Russian Federation13.6%
29 Hungary13.5%
30 Germany11.5%
31 Bulgaria10.4%

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 = 1.411055 X +6.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 77151.860439 X +22824.493
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.076681 X +79.039
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.053050 X +1.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.684622 X +13.215
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041