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Question: Is your pay just? We are not asking about how much you would like to earn - but what you feel is just given your skills and effort. If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" "About just for me" "More than is just" "Much more than is just" "Never had a job"
Data: % of "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 64.7%
2 Japan62.6%
3 Canada58.6%
4 United States52.2%
5 Germany47.1%
6 Australia45.4%

Note
Those who answer "Never had a job"/ 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 = -2.647329 X +8.137
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -118304.193667 X +118711.277
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 10.912092 X +75.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.495476 X +1.856
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.998288 X +10.493
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001