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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy88.4%
2 United States88.3%
3 Republic of Korea79.4%
4 United Kingdom76.7%
5 Germany76.3%
6 Australia76.0%
7 Japan73.4%
8 Sweden68.5%
9 France 56.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.025698 X +7.406
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 27064.660581 X +27707.027
Correlation coefficient (r)0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.044866 X +89.559
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.387448 X +2.538
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.606675 X +10.724
Correlation coefficient (r)0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000