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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 temporary employment.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland81.4%
2 Switzerland80.0%
3 United States78.0%
4 Australia72.7%
5 Slovenia72.4%
6 Germany72.2%
7 Cyprus71.8%
8 New Zealand71.5%
9 Norway68.2%
10 Belgium67.1%
11 Czech Republic65.3%
12 Israel64.7%
12 Sweden64.7%
14 Canada64.5%
15 Portugal63.7%
16 United Kingdom61.9%
17 Denmark61.4%
18 South Africa59.7%
19 Philippines58.5%
20 France58.0%
21 Bulgaria53.4%
22 Finland52.8%
23 Mexico48.4%
24 Dominican Republic47.8%
25 Republic of Korea46.4%
25 Spain46.4%
27 Hungary44.4%
28 Russian Federation43.3%
29 Taiwan43.0%
30 Japan 34.0%
31 Latvia19.5%

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 = 1.875846 X +5.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 116055.411058 X -26683.386
Correlation coefficient (r)0.607
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.368

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 14.221616 X +70.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.397000 X +1.448
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.236252 X +15.500
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050