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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia77.8%
2 Italy71.0%
3 Israel66.4%
4 Poland65.0%
5 Sweden63.8%
6 Spain62.5%
7 France59.8%
8 Switzerland59.2%
9 Netherlands58.6%
10 Norway56.2%
11 United States55.1%
12 Japan 54.4%
13 Canada53.0%
14 Denmark51.1%
15 Czech Republic49.7%
16 Portugal48.4%
17 Germany46.6%
18 Hungary44.4%
18 United Kingdom44.4%
20 New Zealand40.4%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.411762 X +6.545
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9465.262549 X +53610.662
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 6.496704 X +77.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.392738 X +1.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.674129 X +9.765
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001