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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany90.2%
2 United States88.6%
3 Sweden86.6%
4 Italy85.6%
5 United Kingdom77.1%
6 Australia75.0%
7 Japan74.5%
8 France 68.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.153563 X +5.767
Correlation coefficient (r)0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 62358.981346 X -100.118
Correlation coefficient (r)0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.498917 X +93.440
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.545853 X +2.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.006441 X +9.932
Correlation coefficient (r)0.000
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000