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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden70.3%
2 Republic of Korea68.1%
3 Canada59.6%
4 France 59.0%
5 Australia55.3%
6 United States54.2%
7 United Kingdom53.7%
8 Germany53.2%
9 Japan52.1%

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 = 1.162976 X +6.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -34629.146607 X +70799.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 13.106671 X +74.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.494915 X +2.377
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 34.949122 X -8.554
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310