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Question: Whether the job requires supervising others ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia96.0%
2 United States95.4%
3 France 91.9%
4 Canada91.4%
5 Germany84.6%
6 Japan71.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 3.286847 X +3.769
Correlation coefficient (r)0.880
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.774

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 132942.944763 X -64150.997
Correlation coefficient (r)0.790
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.624

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -14.972264 X +94.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.565500 X +0.198
Correlation coefficient (r)0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.279019 X +9.026
Correlation coefficient (r)0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009