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Question: All things considered, how satisfied are you with your (main) job?
Choices: "Completely satisfied" "Very satisfied" "Fairly satisfied" "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied" "Fairly dissatisfied" "Very dissatisfied" "Completely dissatisfied"
Average score (as "Completely satisfied"=6 "Very satisfied"=5 "Fairly satisfied"=4 "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied"=3 "Fairly dissatisfied"=2 "Very dissatisfied"=1 "Completely dissatisfied"=0)
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States4.32
2 Germany4.21
3 Sweden4.18
4 Australia4.09
5 France 4.07
5 United Kingdom4.07
7 Japan3.93

Note
Those who do not work, 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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.675557 X -0.159
Correlation coefficient (r)0.527
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.278

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 92811.984733 X -330245.143
Correlation coefficient (r)0.804
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.646

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -17.094656 X +152.089
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.624885 X -0.963
Correlation coefficient (r)0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.163664 X -14.682
Correlation coefficient (r)0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085