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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 97.4%
2 Australia96.8%
3 Canada96.4%
4 United Kingdom95.9%
5 Sweden94.9%
6 Germany94.6%
7 United States94.5%
8 Republic of Korea91.1%
9 Japan76.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.422036 X +2.573
Correlation coefficient (r)0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 111590.336720 X -53347.689
Correlation coefficient (r)0.506
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.256

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.629209 X +94.604
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.364
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.218968 X -0.562
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -16.839410 X +27.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068