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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States86.8%
2 Germany85.5%
3 Italy85.0%
4 Australia82.1%
5 Sweden80.6%
6 France 77.9%
7 United Kingdom76.6%
8 Japan75.7%
9 Republic of Korea70.2%

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 = 3.644391 X +3.710
Correlation coefficient (r)0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 169579.279854 X -87486.681
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -24.737173 X +101.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.181191 X -1.062
Correlation coefficient (r)0.551
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.304

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -47.005041 X +48.809
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276