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Question: How would you describe yourself as a person? - I work hard to maintain my performance on a task, even if the task takes a long time to start producing any results.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
12 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland97.9%
2 Iceland97.0%
3 Finland96.5%
4 Hungary93.2%
5 France88.8%
6 Austria87.9%
7 Czech Republic87.0%
8 Japan 85.1%
9 Republic of Korea84.2%
10 Italy83.7%
11 Estonia82.9%
12 Lithuania82.8%

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

No data for 26 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data12
Regression equation
Y = 4.698560 X +2.470
Correlation coefficient (r)0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data12
Regression equation
Y = 94107.630151 X -47227.451
Correlation coefficient (r)0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data12
Regression equation
Y = -3.654474 X +83.058
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data12
Regression equation
Y = 1.682834 X -0.025
Correlation coefficient (r)0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data12
Regression equation
Y = -18.738161 X +28.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055