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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea92.6%
2 France 82.6%
3 Canada82.3%
4 Germany81.7%
5 United States79.4%
6 Japan78.1%
7 Sweden74.3%
8 United Kingdom73.4%
9 Australia71.3%

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 = -4.206541 X +10.036
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -106545.563777 X +135307.511
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.478
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.473695 X +79.944
Correlation coefficient (r)0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.257281 X +4.095
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 41.165501 X -20.883
Correlation coefficient (r)0.631
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.398