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Question: How much responsibility goes with the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel89.0%
2 Germany87.9%
3 Slovakia87.3%
4 Austria87.1%
5 Portugal86.0%
6 Chile84.5%
7 United States82.4%
8 New Zealand81.4%
9 Australia79.6%
10 Canada77.8%
11 Sweden 76.1%
12 Czech Republic75.6%
13 United Kingdom75.5%
14 Hungary73.1%
14 Japan73.1%
16 France72.6%
17 Latvia72.3%
18 Norway68.5%
19 Poland68.1%
20 Slovenia66.6%
21 Spain65.6%

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

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.599797 X +6.204
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 17266.354518 X +28853.436
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.949515 X +80.851
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 1.849364 X +0.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -9.934217 X +17.792
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069