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Question: How important is hard work for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States95.5%
2 Iceland92.9%
3 New Zealand89.7%
4 Portugal88.1%
5 Australia86.8%
6 Republic of Korea86.3%
7 Poland85.0%
8 United Kingdom84.1%
9 Norway80.8%
10 Turkiye80.2%
11 Latvia76.3%
12 Czech Republic76.1%
12 Slovakia76.1%
14 Sweden75.7%
15 Hungary71.6%
15 Slovenia71.6%
17 Germany71.1%
17 Israel71.1%
19 Estonia70.3%
20 Chile70.2%
21 Spain68.4%
22 Switzerland68.2%
23 Lithuania66.0%
24 Belgium65.0%
24 Japan 65.0%
26 Austria64.7%
27 Italy64.0%
28 Finland62.4%
29 France55.2%
30 Denmark44.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.827216 X +7.299
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 11920.468290 X +34502.984
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.593087 X +82.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.124531 X +1.682
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.953388 X +7.647
Correlation coefficient (r)0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012