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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary75.8%
2 Latvia72.6%
3 Turkiye72.3%
4 Slovakia71.4%
5 Chile70.4%
6 Poland68.0%
7 Sweden66.5%
8 Portugal65.6%
9 Slovenia64.2%
10 Lithuania63.2%
11 Italy61.1%
12 Finland60.8%
13 Spain60.7%
14 Czech Republic60.6%
15 Japan 60.1%
16 France58.7%
17 Estonia58.5%
18 Israel54.3%
19 United Kingdom53.6%
20 Norway51.9%
21 Australia51.2%
21 United States51.2%
23 New Zealand50.1%
24 Germany49.9%
25 Republic of Korea49.7%
26 Denmark46.3%
27 Iceland46.1%
28 Austria43.8%
29 Belgium40.1%
30 Switzerland36.9%

Note
Those who answer "Never worked"/ 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 = -3.187945 X +8.531
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -173231.958575 X +143554.129
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.750
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.562

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -20.423991 X +91.993
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.608
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.370

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.135321 X +1.668
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.798000 X +12.773
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009