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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 = 2.343251 X +5.336
Correlation coefficient (r)0.472
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.223

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.518698 X +5.203
Correlation coefficient (r)0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

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 = 159445.651516 X -47215.883
Correlation coefficient (r)0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 9.177796 X +76.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.757179 X +1.950
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.064169 X +9.739
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000