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Question: How much responsibility goes with 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 Germany87.9%
2 United States82.4%
3 Australia79.6%
4 Canada77.8%
5 Sweden76.1%
6 United Kingdom75.5%
7 Japan73.1%
8 France 72.6%

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 = 1.662461 X +5.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 133125.864662 X -51154.207
Correlation coefficient (r)0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -25.226247 X +101.421
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.253589 X +1.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.000000 X +11.470
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000