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Question: How important do you personally think being useful to society is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal93.0%
2 Mexico90.2%
3 United States89.7%
4 Ireland88.9%
5 Israel86.6%
6 Republic of Korea85.8%
7 Switzerland 82.6%
8 Slovenia81.9%
9 Spain81.6%
10 Canada80.5%
11 Hungary80.4%
12 Australia79.3%
13 New Zealand75.7%
14 Japan75.2%
15 Germany73.5%
16 Latvia70.0%
17 Czech Republic68.6%
18 United Kingdom68.2%
19 France68.1%
20 Denmark65.9%
21 Belgium65.8%
22 Norway62.1%
23 Sweden59.3%
24 Finland54.0%

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

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.292724 X +8.535
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -27365.706204 X +70424.212
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7.002731 X +86.035
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.168915 X +1.487
Correlation coefficient (r)0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -5.160343 X +14.546
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021