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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "I can work independently"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark93.4%
2 Philippines87.4%
3 Switzerland86.5%
4 New Zealand85.4%
5 Netherlands85.2%
6 Germany85.1%
7 Norway84.8%
8 Sweden83.5%
9 United States80.8%
10 United Kingdom79.2%
11 Slovenia76.6%
12 Canada74.7%
13 Hungary73.8%
14 Czech Republic72.9%
15 Portugal72.3%
16 Israel69.3%
17 Spain59.2%
18 Italy57.7%
19 Cyprus54.7%
20 Russian Federation53.3%
21 Bangladesh53.1%
22 Bulgaria53.0%
23 Poland49.1%
24 France48.2%
25 Japan 39.2%

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 = 3.057788 X +4.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.608
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.370

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 91866.898436 X -23305.702
Correlation coefficient (r)0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 5.286798 X +75.657
Correlation coefficient (r)0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.687312 X +1.173
Correlation coefficient (r)0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.285244 X +8.814
Correlation coefficient (r)0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000