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Question: In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be the person's education and formal qualifications?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines91.4%
2 Bangladesh82.9%
3 Cyprus77.2%
4 Bulgaria69.8%
5 Slovenia69.0%
6 Poland66.8%
7 Israel66.7%
8 Russian Federation66.1%
9 Spain62.3%
10 Czech Republic60.0%
11 United States59.4%
12 Hungary56.5%
13 Denmark54.0%
14 Italy52.3%
15 Norway47.2%
16 Canada45.1%
17 Sweden43.4%
18 Switzerland40.6%
19 Portugal39.5%
20 New Zealand38.6%
21 Netherlands37.2%
22 France36.3%
23 United Kingdom35.5%
24 Germany34.5%
25 Japan 21.3%

Note
Can't choose 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 = -2.099718 X +7.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.465
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.216

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -75791.710960 X +82346.464
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -18.445997 X +89.363
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.681
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.464

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.994367 X +1.118
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.946859 X +12.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082