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Question: How important do you personally think working independently is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany90.7%
2 Sweden83.4%
3 United States79.4%
4 Canada71.5%
5 Italy68.6%
6 United Kingdom67.2%
7 France 61.4%
8 Japan39.1%

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 = 1.757801 X +5.445
Correlation coefficient (r)0.728
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.530

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 52580.185159 X +12117.678
Correlation coefficient (r)0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.664569 X +87.028
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.489
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.239

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.507277 X +1.179
Correlation coefficient (r)0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.601713 X +10.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001