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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is interesting"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland89.4%
2 Denmark86.4%
3 Philippines83.0%
4 Germany82.6%
5 Portugal80.6%
6 New Zealand79.4%
7 Netherlands75.9%
8 Slovenia75.5%
8 Sweden75.5%
10 Canada75.2%
11 Norway74.5%
12 France74.4%
13 United States74.0%
14 Italy73.1%
15 United Kingdom70.9%
16 Cyprus68.5%
17 Israel67.2%
18 Hungary65.3%
19 Czech Republic64.4%
20 Spain64.0%
21 Bulgaria61.8%
22 Poland59.1%
23 Japan 57.3%
24 Bangladesh53.4%
25 Russian Federation48.4%

Note
Those who do not work/ 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 = 4.591502 X +3.243
Correlation coefficient (r)0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 140507.064075 X -58719.989
Correlation coefficient (r)0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 20.473972 X +64.800
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.474082 X +1.319
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -8.906497 X +15.356
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048