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Question: In addition to your main job, do you do any other work for additional income?
Choices: "No" "Yes, mostly as an employee" "Yes, mostly on a self-employed basis" "Yes, other"
Data: % of "Yes, mostly as an employee" "Yes, mostly on a self-employed basis" "Yes, other"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States24.7%
2 Australia23.3%
2 Canada23.3%
4 Sweden20.5%
5 Germany12.4%
6 United Kingdom11.2%
7 Republic of Korea9.8%
8 France 9.7%
9 Japan5.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.274514 X +6.023
Correlation coefficient (r)0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 179273.139760 X +22553.744
Correlation coefficient (r)0.911
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.830

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.369728 X +84.001
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.617161 X +1.252
Correlation coefficient (r)0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.240695 X +11.890
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000