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Question: How important do you personally think job security is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Important"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria99.6%
2 South Africa98.8%
3 Hungary98.7%
4 Israel98.3%
5 Mexico97.8%
6 Spain97.5%
7 Germany96.9%
8 Republic of Korea96.7%
9 Portugal96.5%
10 Belgium95.8%
11 Philippines95.6%
12 Australia94.8%
12 United Kingdom94.8%
14 Latvia94.7%
15 Cyprus94.6%
16 Taiwan94.2%
17 Ireland94.0%
18 Czech Republic93.9%
19 Finland93.7%
20 Slovenia93.6%
21 Norway93.3%
22 New Zealand92.9%
23 Sweden92.7%
24 Canada92.6%
24 Switzerland92.6%
26 United States92.5%
27 France91.7%
28 Russian Federation90.9%
29 Japan 85.2%
30 Dominican Republic83.6%
31 Denmark81.4%

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 = -3.005863 X +9.404
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -134961.182613 X +168777.563
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -27.596326 X +104.674
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.464699 X +1.249
Correlation coefficient (r)0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.915461 X +5.961
Correlation coefficient (r)0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002