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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In order to avoid unemployment I would be willing to travel longer to get to work.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland72.6%
2 Germany69.5%
3 Ireland60.1%
4 United States58.8%
5 Finland57.5%
6 Bulgaria56.0%
7 Latvia55.2%
8 Israel54.2%
9 Australia54.1%
10 South Africa53.4%
11 Portugal53.0%
12 Denmark52.9%
13 Cyprus47.5%
14 Canada47.2%
14 New Zealand47.2%
14 Slovenia47.2%
17 United Kingdom47.1%
18 Republic of Korea46.3%
19 Russian Federation45.7%
20 Norway45.6%
20 Sweden45.6%
22 Mexico43.2%
23 France42.9%
24 Spain42.1%
25 Dominican Republic41.5%
26 Belgium40.2%
27 Hungary34.0%
28 Taiwan32.8%
29 Japan 31.5%
30 Czech Republic23.1%
31 Philippines17.9%

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 = 1.255757 X +5.989
Correlation coefficient (r)0.245
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 114315.803140 X -11964.076
Correlation coefficient (r)0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.882541 X +74.052
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.670553 X +2.005
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 6.464004 X +7.487
Correlation coefficient (r)0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021