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Question: How much responsibility goes with the job ? 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"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States86.8%
2 Austria 85.6%
3 Germany85.5%
4 Italy85.0%
5 Chile84.4%
5 Turkiye84.4%
7 Slovakia84.3%
8 Australia82.1%
9 New Zealand81.4%
10 Finland81.2%
10 Poland81.2%
12 Spain81.1%
13 Hungary80.6%
13 Sweden80.6%
15 Czech Republic80.2%
15 Portugal80.2%
17 Switzerland79.2%
18 Lithuania79.0%
19 France77.9%
20 United Kingdom76.6%
21 Latvia76.1%
22 Norway76.0%
23 Japan75.7%
24 Estonia74.6%
25 Israel73.1%
26 Iceland72.0%
27 Republic of Korea70.2%
28 Belgium69.5%
29 Denmark66.9%
30 Slovenia65.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.822800 X +8.904
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -62765.795113 X +92652.936
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -16.000318 X +92.749
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.679755 X +2.124
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -23.362063 X +28.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100