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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany96.9%
2 Republic of Korea96.7%
3 Australia94.8%
3 United Kingdom94.8%
5 Sweden92.7%
6 Canada92.6%
7 United States92.5%
8 France 91.7%
9 Japan85.2%

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 = 3.317738 X +3.602
Correlation coefficient (r)0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 68052.278275 X -12776.560
Correlation coefficient (r)0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -15.785191 X +96.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.761798 X +2.214
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 9.553499 X +2.958
Correlation coefficient (r)0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006