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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 97.8%
2 Germany97.7%
3 Sweden96.8%
4 United Kingdom95.2%
4 United States95.2%
6 Canada94.9%
7 Italy94.2%
8 Japan80.4%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.642474 X +2.314
Correlation coefficient (r)0.691
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.477

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 102803.164853 X -47651.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.733859 X +98.324
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.176671 X -0.512
Correlation coefficient (r)0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -13.658165 X +22.666
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055