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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In order to avoid unemployment I would be willing to accept a position with lower pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland68.0%
2 United States60.0%
3 Ireland58.0%
4 Germany52.0%
5 Portugal51.4%
6 Australia49.7%
7 Slovenia47.5%
8 Republic of Korea46.4%
9 New Zealand45.8%
10 Israel45.6%
11 Norway43.4%
12 Denmark41.5%
13 Canada40.6%
14 United Kingdom40.0%
15 Sweden32.5%
16 Belgium32.2%
16 Czech Republic32.2%
18 Finland 31.6%
19 Spain31.2%
20 France30.3%
21 Latvia29.2%
22 Japan28.7%
23 Mexico24.7%
24 Hungary23.5%

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 = 0.724762 X +6.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 140477.484804 X -8119.625
Correlation coefficient (r)0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 11.231828 X +76.090
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.091149 X +1.578
Correlation coefficient (r)0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.163508 X +10.550
Correlation coefficient (r)0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000