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Question: If you were looking actively, how easy or difficult do you think it would be for you to find an acceptable job?
Choices: "Very easy" "Fairly easy" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Very easy" "Fairly easy"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States52.2%
2 Norway42.4%
3 Denmark37.9%
4 New Zealand34.1%
5 Canada32.5%
6 Netherlands29.9%
7 Israel25.5%
8 Sweden 24.5%
9 Czech Republic22.8%
10 United Kingdom22.0%
11 Poland20.5%
12 France18.0%
13 Switzerland17.8%
14 Italy13.2%
15 Slovenia13.0%
16 Portugal11.1%
17 Germany10.7%
18 Spain10.6%
19 Hungary9.7%
20 Japan5.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = 2.488895 X +6.212
Correlation coefficient (r)0.660
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.436

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 128556.808309 X +19116.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.669
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.448

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.552867 X +81.609
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.741889 X +1.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 5.373518 X +8.166
Correlation coefficient (r)0.238
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057