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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States29.0%
2 Japan20.5%
3 France 18.5%
4 Germany12.7%
5 United Kingdom11.9%
6 Sweden11.2%
7 Australia10.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.975782 X +7.236
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 54668.032284 X +43634.920
Correlation coefficient (r)0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -23.651773 X +85.438
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.602
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.362

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.254046 X +1.656
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 23.713149 X +6.877
Correlation coefficient (r)0.615
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.378