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Question: Over the past 12 months, have you had any training to improve your job skills, either at the workplace or somewhere else?
Choices: "Yes" "No"
Data: % of "Yes"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia61.1%
2 Finland 60.5%
3 United States60.1%
4 United Kingdom59.7%
5 Denmark58.2%
6 New Zealand57.3%
7 Canada56.5%
8 Switzerland55.5%
9 Norway54.0%
10 Slovenia53.1%
11 Ireland51.8%
12 Belgium50.6%
13 Sweden49.0%
14 France46.3%
15 Mexico39.4%
15 Republic of Korea39.4%
17 Germany39.1%
18 Latvia37.4%
19 Israel36.5%
20 Japan35.3%
21 Czech Republic33.0%
22 Hungary31.3%
23 Spain24.1%
24 Portugal22.0%

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 = 2.678628 X +5.550
Correlation coefficient (r)0.667
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.445

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 132013.493154 X -11529.039
Correlation coefficient (r)0.619
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.383

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 7.189246 X +77.376
Correlation coefficient (r)0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.161492 X +1.541
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.936238 X +7.869
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036