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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "In my job I can help other people"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal85.0%
2 United States80.3%
3 Denmark78.2%
4 Slovenia77.4%
5 New Zealand76.6%
6 Israel76.1%
7 Canada75.3%
8 Hungary74.0%
9 Norway71.1%
10 United Kingdom69.1%
11 Switzerland 66.9%
12 Czech Republic66.8%
13 France66.6%
14 Sweden65.1%
15 Netherlands64.5%
16 Spain62.2%
17 Poland60.3%
18 Italy57.7%
19 Germany51.6%
20 Japan50.0%

Note
Those who do not work/ 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 = 1.115762 X +6.010
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 42386.114467 X +19136.985
Correlation coefficient (r)0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -6.545309 X +85.529
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.285209 X +0.731
Correlation coefficient (r)0.325
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.726783 X +6.136
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025