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Question: How hard he or she works at the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States88.6%
2 New Zealand82.7%
3 Hungary81.1%
4 Portugal80.6%
5 Germany79.5%
6 Austria79.3%
7 Canada79.2%
8 Poland77.8%
9 Czech Republic77.2%
10 Slovakia76.9%
11 Australia75.8%
12 United Kingdom75.7%
13 Norway75.6%
14 Israel74.2%
15 Spain73.8%
16 Latvia70.7%
17 Japan 68.4%
18 Chile67.4%
19 Slovenia65.1%
20 Sweden61.9%
21 France55.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.221725 X +6.835
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 52701.616904 X +2928.284
Correlation coefficient (r)0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -13.539379 X +90.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.459002 X +1.967
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.668466 X +12.072
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005