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Question: How would you describe yourself as a person? - I work hard to maintain my performance on a task, even if the task takes a long time to start producing any results.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
16 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland97.9%
2 Iceland97.0%
3 Finland96.5%
4 Hungary93.2%
5 Ukraine91.4%
6 Russian Federation90.6%
7 France88.8%
8 Taiwan88.6%
9 Austria87.9%
10 Czech Republic87.0%
11 Japan 85.1%
12 Republic of Korea84.2%
13 Italy83.7%
14 Estonia82.9%
15 Lithuania82.8%
16 China78.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 222 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 3.539018 X +3.299
Correlation coefficient (r)0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 92787.672935 X -50696.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.300
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.090

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -10.251601 X +87.401
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 1.751455 X -0.120
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 4.426386 X +8.817
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003