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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is interesting"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States85.3%
2 Germany82.9%
3 Canada79.3%
4 France 76.7%
5 Australia74.5%
6 Sweden73.9%
7 United Kingdom73.3%
8 Japan58.6%
9 Republic of Korea42.6%

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 = 2.186854 X +5.119
Correlation coefficient (r)0.694
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.482

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 78116.329936 X -5585.530
Correlation coefficient (r)0.732
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.536

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.831709 X +89.699
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.956662 X +0.098
Correlation coefficient (r)0.862
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.743

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -21.796475 X +27.524
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487