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Question: How important do you personally think job security is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany97.8%
2 United Kingdom96.5%
3 United States94.6%
4 Italy94.5%
5 France 92.9%
6 Sweden92.1%
7 Canada89.9%
8 Japan84.6%

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 = 3.225455 X +3.684
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 91398.559188 X -35865.737
Correlation coefficient (r)0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -34.120578 X +113.335
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.839361 X -0.173
Correlation coefficient (r)0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -35.286354 X +42.592
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199