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Question: Which of the following statements best describes how your daily work is organized?
Choices: "I am free to decide how my daily work is organized" "I can decide how my daily work is organized, within certain limits" "I am not free to decide how my daily work is organized"
Data: % of "I am free to decide how my daily work is organized" "I can decide how my daily work is organized, within certain limits"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 82.0%
2 Canada79.9%
3 Germany77.3%
4 United States76.3%
7 Japan68.5%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 5.145040 X +2.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.826
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.682

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 103886.929461 X -26242.362
Correlation coefficient (r)0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -15.164089 X +92.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.704640 X -0.575
Correlation coefficient (r)0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -21.197661 X +27.282
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203