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Question: How important do you personally think helping other people 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 Slovenia88.2%
2 Portugal87.0%
3 Spain85.4%
4 Italy83.3%
5 Israel82.0%
6 Poland81.9%
7 Denmark81.2%
8 United States80.7%
9 Netherlands77.2%
10 Canada74.1%
11 Hungary73.9%
12 New Zealand73.6%
13 United Kingdom72.9%
14 Switzerland71.0%
15 Sweden 70.1%
16 Czech Republic69.7%
17 Japan69.2%
18 Germany67.7%
19 Norway65.6%
20 France60.9%

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 = -0.998680 X +7.534
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -105346.889770 X +128105.073
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -6.272353 X +85.783
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.214919 X +1.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -8.657869 X +15.946
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056