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Question: How important do you personally think deciding times or days of work 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 Italy71.0%
2 Sweden63.8%
3 France 59.8%
4 United States55.1%
5 Japan54.4%
6 Canada53.0%
7 Germany46.6%
8 United Kingdom44.4%

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 = -0.243848 X +6.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -31381.521980 X +66586.825
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 8.858807 X +76.688
Correlation coefficient (r)0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.417407 X +1.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -4.497158 X +12.343
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014