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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States89.7%
2 Republic of Korea85.8%
3 Canada80.5%
4 Australia79.3%
5 Japan75.2%
6 Germany73.5%
7 United Kingdom68.2%
8 France 68.1%
9 Sweden59.3%

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 = -1.920782 X +8.142
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 37579.148796 X +22203.678
Correlation coefficient (r)0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.453580 X +89.050
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.407615 X +2.567
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 24.248708 X -6.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305