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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is useful to society"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico83.0%
2 Switzerland 82.8%
3 United States81.4%
4 Ireland79.9%
5 Portugal78.9%
6 Latvia77.9%
7 Hungary75.4%
8 Czech Republic75.2%
9 Canada74.0%
10 Slovenia73.9%
11 Denmark73.7%
12 Norway70.6%
13 Germany69.7%
14 Israel68.6%
15 New Zealand68.3%
16 Australia68.2%
17 France67.2%
18 Sweden66.1%
19 Spain63.9%
20 United Kingdom63.2%
21 Finland62.0%
22 Japan61.2%
23 Belgium58.0%
24 Republic of Korea48.9%

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 = 0.141375 X +6.690
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 49774.339407 X +14502.299
Correlation coefficient (r)0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -23.118633 X +97.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.365794 X +0.653
Correlation coefficient (r)0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -16.782902 X +22.449
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141