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Question: How important do you personally think working independently 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 Germany90.7%
2 Denmark90.3%
3 Switzerland89.1%
4 Slovenia86.6%
5 Netherlands85.0%
6 Sweden83.4%
7 Norway80.7%
8 United States79.4%
9 Poland79.3%
10 Spain78.6%
11 Israel76.1%
12 New Zealand75.1%
13 Canada71.5%
14 Hungary69.6%
15 Portugal68.8%
16 Italy68.6%
17 United Kingdom67.2%
18 France61.4%
19 Czech Republic57.4%
20 Japan 39.1%

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 = 2.127318 X +5.184
Correlation coefficient (r)0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 82988.171844 X -13880.791
Correlation coefficient (r)0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.346969 X +81.290
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.287458 X +1.399
Correlation coefficient (r)0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.455456 X +9.726
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000