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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 = 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 = 293989.037726 X -225312.999
Correlation coefficient (r)0.645
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.416

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 17.433216 X +64.807
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.614188 X +0.112
Correlation coefficient (r)0.227
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.610479 X +13.676
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007