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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "Without trade unions the working conditions of employees would be much worse than they are"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany73.4%
2 Republic of Korea68.8%
3 Australia65.4%
4 France 65.0%
5 United States61.4%
6 Japan59.5%
7 Canada52.0%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.827804 X +7.117
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -48510.289554 X +81383.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.564273 X +82.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.243906 X +1.628
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.693483 X +8.229
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011