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Question: How important do you personally think high income 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 Italy81.5%
2 Germany80.7%
3 Japan80.2%
4 United States79.6%
5 Canada78.4%
6 France 77.0%
7 United Kingdom76.4%
8 Sweden69.4%

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 = -7.743926 X +12.711
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.786
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.618

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -85628.371915 X +115713.752
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -12.043237 X +91.032
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.612397 X +3.570
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -26.226325 X +30.254
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095