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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland99.0%
2 New Zealand97.9%
3 France97.8%
4 Germany97.7%
5 Norway97.6%
6 Sweden96.8%
7 Denmark95.9%
8 United Kingdom95.2%
8 United States95.2%
10 Canada94.9%
11 Israel94.2%
11 Italy94.2%
13 Netherlands93.3%
13 Slovenia93.3%
15 Poland91.0%
16 Spain89.5%
17 Czech Republic88.6%
18 Portugal86.5%
19 Hungary82.2%
20 Japan 80.4%

Note
Can't choose 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 = 5.974474 X +1.208
Correlation coefficient (r)0.712
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.507

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 6.346756 X +0.871
Correlation coefficient (r)0.710
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.504

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 289262.732124 X -217373.049
Correlation coefficient (r)0.676
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.457

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 10.857780 X +71.706
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.228677 X +0.337
Correlation coefficient (r)0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -8.980119 X +18.136
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026