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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 Canada23.3%
5 Germany12.4%
6 United Kingdom11.2%
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 data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.648149 X +6.243
Correlation coefficient (r)0.695
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.483

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 172894.678661 X +27703.622
Correlation coefficient (r)0.840
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.706

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -23.338879 X +84.671
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.814
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.663

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.265870 X +1.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 15.256253 X +8.100
Correlation coefficient (r)0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182