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Question: How hard he or she works at the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States88.6%
2 Germany79.5%
3 Canada79.2%
4 Australia75.8%
5 United Kingdom75.7%
6 Japan68.4%
7 Sweden61.9%
8 France 55.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.027363 X +6.750
Correlation coefficient (r)0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 76313.970292 X -2925.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.604
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.365

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -15.465684 X +93.016
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.653
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.426

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.441193 X +1.914
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 3.216778 X +8.338
Correlation coefficient (r)0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020