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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "In my job I can help other people"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States87.8%
2 Philippines86.9%
3 Ireland83.4%
4 Taiwan81.9%
5 New Zealand81.7%
6 Canada81.6%
6 Switzerland81.6%
8 Mexico80.2%
9 Dominican Republic76.6%
10 Cyprus76.5%
11 Israel76.4%
12 United Kingdom76.3%
13 Slovenia75.6%
14 Australia75.4%
15 Denmark75.2%
16 Portugal73.0%
17 Hungary72.4%
18 Norway70.7%
19 South Africa69.1%
20 Latvia68.9%
21 Sweden67.4%
22 France67.1%
23 Finland66.3%
24 Bulgaria65.8%
25 Germany62.1%
26 Belgium59.6%
27 Russian Federation59.1%
28 Republic of Korea58.5%
29 Czech Republic56.7%
30 Spain52.0%
31 Japan 51.7%

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 = 1.177203 X +5.741
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 69729.154288 X -7786.290
Correlation coefficient (r)0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.725298 X +83.561
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.777761 X +0.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17.394498 X +22.957
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110