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Question: How well he or she does 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 States92.9%
2 Germany89.1%
3 Italy86.0%
4 Sweden85.4%
5 Republic of Korea81.7%
6 Japan79.8%
7 United Kingdom76.9%
8 Australia76.7%
9 France 74.6%

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 = 0.518775 X +6.199
Correlation coefficient (r)0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 93161.802305 X -28668.484
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -22.923167 X +100.860
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.387307 X +1.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 6.439916 X +5.867
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007