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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States47.4%
2 Australia27.7%
3 France 25.7%
4 United Kingdom23.2%
5 Germany21.1%
6 Sweden17.8%
7 Japan15.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.383704 X +6.654
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 110401.025860 X +24401.510
Correlation coefficient (r)0.808
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.653

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -22.045950 X +87.204
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.868
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.753

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.631695 X +1.453
Correlation coefficient (r)0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 11.319363 X +7.854
Correlation coefficient (r)0.454
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.206