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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 job that requires new skills.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland92.8%
2 Australia90.0%
3 Germany89.5%
4 Norway87.8%
4 Slovenia87.8%
6 New Zealand87.5%
7 Ireland87.2%
8 United States86.5%
9 Mexico86.0%
10 France85.9%
11 Sweden84.7%
11 United Kingdom84.7%
13 Latvia83.8%
14 Finland83.4%
15 Denmark81.5%
16 Israel81.0%
17 Canada79.7%
18 Czech Republic79.1%
19 Portugal76.6%
20 Belgium73.9%
20 Spain73.9%
22 Republic of Korea69.7%
23 Hungary65.3%
24 Japan 58.1%

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 = 3.327314 X +4.077
Correlation coefficient (r)0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 149500.553888 X -72274.660
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.294519 X +81.759
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.400153 X +0.474
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -9.828451 X +18.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048