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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 temporary employment.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland81.4%
2 Switzerland80.0%
3 United States78.0%
4 Australia72.7%
5 Slovenia72.4%
6 Germany72.2%
7 New Zealand71.5%
8 Norway68.2%
9 Belgium67.1%
10 Czech Republic65.3%
11 Israel64.7%
11 Sweden64.7%
13 Canada64.5%
14 Portugal63.7%
15 United Kingdom61.9%
16 Denmark61.4%
17 France58.0%
18 Finland52.8%
19 Mexico48.4%
20 Republic of Korea46.4%
20 Spain46.4%
22 Hungary44.4%
23 Japan 34.0%
24 Latvia19.5%

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 = 1.610346 X +5.810
Correlation coefficient (r)0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 111844.315968 X -18426.776
Correlation coefficient (r)0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 8.817812 X +75.341
Correlation coefficient (r)0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.654331 X +1.217
Correlation coefficient (r)0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -5.945295 X +14.233
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055