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Question: How much of your past work experience and /or job skills can you make use of in your present job?
Choices: "Almost none" "A little" "A lot" "Almost all"
Data: % of "A lot" "Almost all"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden84.5%
2 Switzerland74.8%
3 Denmark74.7%
4 Germany74.5%
5 New Zealand73.2%
6 Canada70.7%
7 Australia70.3%
8 Slovenia70.2%
9 United States67.3%
10 Norway67.2%
11 Ireland65.8%
12 United Kingdom65.4%
13 Israel62.3%
14 Finland 60.3%
15 Czech Republic59.2%
16 Belgium58.7%
17 France58.3%
18 Hungary56.7%
19 Mexico56.6%
20 Republic of Korea54.2%
21 Latvia51.8%
22 Portugal46.2%
23 Spain45.2%
24 Japan43.7%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.166297 X +4.795
Correlation coefficient (r)0.683
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.466

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 136853.398966 X -36613.029
Correlation coefficient (r)0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 7.383392 X +76.053
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.890131 X +1.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.015691 X +11.257
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001