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Question: In addition to your main job, do you do any other work for additional income?
Choices: "No" "Yes, mostly as an employee" "Yes, mostly on a self-employed basis" "Yes, other"
Data: % of "Yes, mostly as an employee" "Yes, mostly on a self-employed basis" "Yes, other"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia30.8%
2 United States24.7%
3 Australia23.3%
3 Canada23.3%
3 New Zealand23.3%
6 Mexico20.8%
7 Sweden20.5%
8 Norway18.9%
9 Denmark18.2%
10 Slovenia17.8%
11 Finland15.9%
12 Czech Republic15.4%
13 Switzerland13.6%
14 Hungary13.4%
15 Germany12.4%
16 Israel11.6%
17 United Kingdom11.2%
18 Belgium10.9%
19 Ireland10.3%
20 Republic of Korea9.8%
21 France9.7%
22 Spain6.2%
23 Portugal6.1%
24 Japan 5.8%

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 = 2.323224 X +6.428
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 40144.326467 X +43339.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -23.693418 X +84.395
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.769491 X +1.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 14.527274 X +8.354
Correlation coefficient (r)0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066