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Question: How important do you personally think deciding times or days of work is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico78.6%
2 Spain77.9%
3 Slovenia77.1%
4 Finland 72.2%
5 Sweden70.3%
6 Switzerland69.2%
7 Portugal68.8%
8 Republic of Korea68.1%
9 Latvia67.8%
10 Israel67.0%
11 Belgium64.2%
12 Ireland61.5%
13 Norway61.1%
14 Denmark60.9%
15 New Zealand60.6%
16 Canada59.6%
17 France59.0%
18 Australia55.3%
19 United States54.2%
20 United Kingdom53.7%
21 Czech Republic53.2%
21 Germany53.2%
23 Japan52.1%
24 Hungary47.6%

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 = 0.813772 X +6.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -48186.561510 X +79974.835
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.309602 X +80.899
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.204417 X +1.744
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.661540 X +11.665
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002