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Question: How important do you personally think helping other people 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 States90.5%
2 Republic of Korea83.1%
3 Canada80.8%
4 Australia80.3%
5 Germany75.4%
6 United Kingdom72.2%
7 Japan68.2%
8 Sweden67.1%
9 France 61.2%

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 = -0.198588 X +6.841
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 81731.667899 X -11063.729
Correlation coefficient (r)0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.703101 X +92.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.061529 X +2.305
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 20.915714 X -3.923
Correlation coefficient (r)0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212