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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "Without trade unions the working conditions of employees would be much worse than they are"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland80.0%
2 South Africa77.6%
3 Finland75.8%
4 Israel74.6%
5 Germany73.4%
6 Syrian Arab Republic72.8%
7 Denmark71.7%
8 Cyprus70.7%
9 Dominican Republic70.5%
10 Republic of Korea68.8%
11 Tajikistan68.7%
12 Portugal67.5%
13 Norway66.2%
14 Australia65.4%
15 France65.0%
16 Switzerland63.6%
17 United States61.4%
18 Mexico61.0%
19 Spain60.7%
20 Belgium59.9%
21 Japan 59.5%
22 Uruguay58.8%
23 Slovenia55.4%
24 Canada52.0%
25 New Zealand51.1%
26 Czech Republic50.0%
27 Hungary48.0%
28 Latvia46.3%
29 Philippines45.6%
30 Bulgaria40.6%
31 Russian Federation32.0%

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 data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.520324 X +5.579
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 91616.527683 X -16525.707
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 13.346281 X +69.770
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.924542 X +1.195
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -8.561236 X +15.747
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032