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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In order to avoid unemployment I would be willing to accept a job that requires new skills.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia90.0%
2 Germany89.5%
3 United States86.5%
4 France 85.9%
5 Sweden84.7%
5 United Kingdom84.7%
7 Canada79.7%
8 Republic of Korea69.7%
9 Japan58.1%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.069629 X +4.206
Correlation coefficient (r)0.769
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.591

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 89823.863977 X -22157.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.664
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.441

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.321092 X +91.079
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.058894 X -0.163
Correlation coefficient (r)0.716
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.513

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -18.073588 X +26.488
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209