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Question: Over the past 12 months, have you had any training to improve your job skills, either at the workplace or somewhere else?
Choices: "Yes" "No"
Data: % of "Yes"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia61.1%
2 United States60.1%
3 United Kingdom59.7%
4 Canada56.5%
5 Sweden49.0%
6 France 46.3%
7 Republic of Korea39.4%
8 Germany39.1%
9 Japan35.3%

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 = 2.634386 X +5.384
Correlation coefficient (r)0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 107113.723656 X -2560.197
Correlation coefficient (r)0.762
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.581

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.392232 X +87.563
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.455887 X +0.782
Correlation coefficient (r)0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.626510 X +17.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080