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Question: Is your pay just? We are not asking about how much you would like to earn - but what you feel is just given your skills and effort. If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" "About just for me" "More than is just" "Much more than is just" "Never had a job"
Data: % of "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovakia86.9%
2 Portugal81.6%
3 Poland81.5%
4 Chile79.0%
5 Hungary72.0%
6 Latvia70.3%
7 Slovenia68.7%
8 Spain68.2%
9 Israel67.2%
10 Switzerland66.9%
11 France64.7%
12 Czech Republic64.5%
13 Japan 62.6%
14 Norway61.2%
15 Canada58.6%
16 New Zealand54.8%
17 United States52.2%
18 Germany47.1%
19 Austria46.8%
20 Australia45.4%

Note
Those who answer "Never had a job"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.946969 X +7.917
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.565
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.319

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -121925.236780 X +123233.046
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -12.965674 X +88.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.197177 X +1.748
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.026460 X +13.382
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047