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Question: How often do you have to do hard physical work?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Hardly ever" "Never"
Data: % of "Always" "Often"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada26.2%
3 Italy24.5%
4 United Kingdom21.8%
5 United States21.6%
6 Germany20.7%
7 France 19.5%
8 Japan17.2%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5.286890 X +5.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 109387.380023 X +27059.588
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -15.678726 X +84.908
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.903544 X +1.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -42.277977 X +18.610
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141