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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 accept a position with lower pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland68.0%
2 United States60.0%
3 Ireland58.0%
4 Germany52.0%
5 Portugal51.4%
6 Australia49.7%
7 Slovenia47.5%
8 Republic of Korea46.4%
9 New Zealand45.8%
10 Israel45.6%
11 Cyprus44.7%
12 Norway43.4%
13 Taiwan42.5%
14 South Africa42.2%
15 Denmark41.5%
16 Bulgaria41.1%
17 Canada40.6%
18 United Kingdom40.0%
19 Dominican Republic35.1%
20 Sweden32.5%
21 Belgium32.2%
21 Czech Republic32.2%
23 Finland31.6%
24 Spain31.2%
25 France30.3%
26 Latvia29.2%
27 Japan 28.7%
28 Mexico24.7%
29 Hungary23.5%
30 Philippines23.3%
31 Russian Federation22.6%

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 = 1.259853 X +6.080
Correlation coefficient (r)0.238
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 149032.606381 X -17400.307
Correlation coefficient (r)0.625
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.391

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 18.873193 X +71.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.427376 X +1.855
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.114
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.917268 X +10.940
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000