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Question: How important do you personally think working independently 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 Germany90.7%
2 Denmark90.3%
3 Switzerland89.1%
4 Slovenia86.6%
5 Netherlands85.0%
6 Sweden83.4%
7 Norway80.7%
8 United States79.4%
9 Poland79.3%
10 Spain78.6%
11 Israel76.1%
12 New Zealand75.1%
13 Canada71.5%
14 Hungary69.6%
15 Portugal68.8%
16 Italy68.6%
17 United Kingdom67.2%
18 France61.4%
19 Czech Republic57.4%
20 Japan 39.1%

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 = 2.141330 X +5.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.645
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.416

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.046433 X +5.235
Correlation coefficient (r)0.589
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.347

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.127318 X +5.184
Correlation coefficient (r)0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 91144.846414 X -16415.233
Correlation coefficient (r)0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.870438 X +82.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.182367 X +1.343
Correlation coefficient (r)0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.957239 X +13.492
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.216
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047