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Question: How important do you personally think working independently is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany90.7%
2 Denmark90.3%
3 Switzerland89.1%
4 Slovenia86.6%
5 Cyprus85.7%
6 Netherlands85.0%
7 Sweden83.4%
8 Philippines82.5%
9 Norway80.7%
10 United States79.4%
11 Poland79.3%
12 Spain78.6%
13 Israel76.1%
14 New Zealand75.1%
15 Bangladesh72.5%
16 Canada71.5%
17 Hungary69.6%
18 Portugal68.8%
19 Italy68.6%
20 United Kingdom67.2%
21 Russian Federation66.4%
22 France61.4%
23 Bulgaria59.1%
24 Czech Republic57.4%
25 Japan 39.1%

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 = 2.412727 X +4.713
Correlation coefficient (r)0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 81212.371975 X -19245.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 4.483403 X +76.033
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.431583 X +1.335
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.120678 X +12.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022