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Question: In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be the person's education and formal qualifications?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States59.4%
2 Italy52.3%
3 Canada45.1%
5 France 36.3%
6 United Kingdom35.5%
7 Germany34.5%
8 Japan21.3%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.971373 X +6.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.423
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.179

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 82051.862612 X +17397.643
Correlation coefficient (r)0.673
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.453

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.509724 X +86.191
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.694
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.482

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.276349 X +1.362
Correlation coefficient (r)0.166
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.500117 X +9.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000