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Question: How important do you personally think being useful to society 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 Italy79.5%
2 United States78.7%
3 Japan77.1%
4 Canada72.8%
5 United Kingdom68.7%
6 France 66.0%
7 Sweden64.3%
8 Germany63.0%

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 = -3.421357 X +9.117
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -836.306566 X +49605.223
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -5.918831 X +85.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.892835 X +2.884
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.641
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.411

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.596471 X +7.973
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003