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Question: How important do you personally think high income is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico54.8%
2 Poland48.1%
3 Lithuania44.5%
4 Chile42.5%
5 Estonia42.0%
6 Latvia41.4%
7 Hungary39.4%
8 Israel38.4%
9 Spain29.2%
10 United States29.0%
11 Slovakia28.4%
12 Slovenia28.2%
13 Austria 26.0%
14 Czech Republic21.9%
15 Japan20.5%
16 France18.5%
17 Belgium17.9%
18 Iceland17.1%
19 Finland15.4%
20 Germany12.7%
21 New Zealand12.0%
22 United Kingdom11.9%
23 Sweden11.2%
24 Australia10.2%
25 Denmark8.4%
26 Switzerland7.2%
27 Norway5.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.776959 X +7.260
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.549
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.301

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -127116.244208 X +76932.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -21.483336 X +85.138
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.782
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.612

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.149103 X +1.599
Correlation coefficient (r)0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.513120 X +10.266
Correlation coefficient (r)0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004