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Question: Would you say that you earn...? If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" "What I deserve" "More than I deserve" "Much more than I deserve" "Never worked"
Data: % of "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovakia81.5%
2 Chile80.7%
3 Portugal79.3%
4 Poland75.2%
5 Hungary73.4%
6 Sweden71.3%
7 Slovenia68.9%
8 Japan 68.3%
9 Israel65.0%
10 Spain64.8%
11 Latvia63.2%
12 Czech Republic59.8%
13 United States59.7%
14 United Kingdom58.3%
15 Norway57.6%
16 France51.5%
17 New Zealand50.9%
18 Germany50.8%
19 Australia43.8%
20 Austria41.4%

Note
Those who answer "Never worked"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.911381 X +7.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -109890.139355 X +111144.691
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.568
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.323

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -11.285734 X +87.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.386
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.149

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.335566 X +1.846
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.055745 X +11.369
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007