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Question: Which of the following statements best describes how your daily work is organized?
Choices: "I am free to decide how my daily work is organized" "I can decide how my daily work is organized, within certain limits" "I am not free to decide how my daily work is organized"
Data: % of "I am free to decide how my daily work is organized"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States40.4%
2 Mexico36.1%
3 Chile34.2%
4 Switzerland33.8%
5 France33.7%
6 United Kingdom32.4%
7 New Zealand31.9%
8 Spain31.7%
9 Australia30.6%
10 Israel29.7%
11 Poland28.9%
12 Latvia28.7%
13 Austria28.1%
14 Denmark26.6%
15 Sweden26.2%
16 Germany25.6%
16 Slovakia25.6%
18 Belgium24.6%
19 Norway23.3%
20 Lithuania21.8%
21 Czech Republic21.5%
22 Iceland21.4%
23 Slovenia20.7%
24 Estonia19.9%
25 Finland18.9%
26 Japan 18.0%
27 Hungary15.4%

Note
% among those who work currently. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.182816 X +6.757
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.013221 X +6.814
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 71877.112696 X +28884.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.863436 X +80.637
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.228086 X +1.143
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -17.668805 X +15.463
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142