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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%
4 Sweden43.4%
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.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.154432 X +6.206
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 74859.690477 X +18335.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.636
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.404

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -12.862650 X +86.920
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.183840 X +1.460
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.223038 X +9.323
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002