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Question: If you had only one of these three choices, which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "Work longer hours and earn more money" "Work the same number of hours and earn the same money" "Work fewer hours and earn less money"
Data: % of "Work the same number of hours and earn the same money"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark75.6%
2 Norway73.5%
3 United Kingdom70.9%
4 Switzerland69.8%
5 Netherlands69.3%
6 Germany69.1%
7 Sweden66.3%
8 France65.1%
9 New Zealand63.7%
10 Spain63.4%
11 Canada61.4%
12 Slovenia60.7%
13 Japan 60.3%
14 Italy59.7%
15 United States57.4%
16 Czech Republic56.9%
17 Hungary56.7%
18 Portugal50.7%
19 Israel50.5%
20 Poland41.6%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.907957 X +4.970
Correlation coefficient (r)0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 173174.777628 X -59320.289
Correlation coefficient (r)0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 16.796663 X +70.594
Correlation coefficient (r)0.500
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.250

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.559763 X +1.962
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.184185 X +9.271
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000