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Question: How important is hard work for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States95.5%
2 Australia86.8%
3 Republic of Korea86.3%
4 United Kingdom84.1%
5 Sweden75.7%
6 Germany71.1%
7 Japan65.0%
8 Italy64.0%
9 France 55.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.810178 X +6.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 71008.115638 X -5690.387
Correlation coefficient (r)0.619
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.383

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.308648 X +89.005
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.248336 X +1.673
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 17.975886 X -2.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237