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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is useful to society"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria88.7%
2 Portugal88.0%
3 Philippines86.4%
4 Bangladesh80.0%
4 Poland80.0%
6 Slovenia79.6%
7 Hungary79.0%
8 Czech Republic78.5%
9 Denmark78.4%
10 Israel75.7%
11 Spain74.6%
12 Russian Federation73.2%
13 Switzerland71.8%
14 Norway70.9%
15 United States70.7%
16 Cyprus70.2%
17 Canada69.5%
18 Sweden67.3%
19 New Zealand67.1%
20 France66.5%
21 Germany65.2%
22 Netherlands62.0%
23 Japan 60.9%
24 Italy57.7%
25 United Kingdom56.8%

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 = -3.122177 X +8.783
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -122975.122382 X +130771.742
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -30.333344 X +101.443
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.451290 X +0.601
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.514738 X +13.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019