Tweet
Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "Without trade unions the working conditions of employees would be much worse than they are"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland80.0%
2 South Africa77.6%
3 Finland75.8%
4 Israel74.6%
5 Germany73.4%
6 Syrian Arab Republic72.8%
7 Denmark71.7%
8 Cyprus 70.7%
9 Dominican Republic70.5%
10 Republic of Korea68.8%
11 Tajikistan68.7%
12 Portugal67.5%
13 Norway66.2%
14 Australia65.4%
15 France65.0%
16 Switzerland63.6%
17 United States61.4%
18 Mexico61.0%
19 Spain60.7%
20 Belgium59.9%
21 Japan59.5%
22 Uruguay58.8%
23 Slovenia55.4%
24 Canada52.0%
25 New Zealand51.1%
26 Czech Republic50.0%
27 Hungary48.0%
28 Latvia46.3%
29 Philippines45.6%
30 Bulgaria40.6%
31 Russian Federation32.0%

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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.007943 X +5.293
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 92578.856598 X -18125.613
Correlation coefficient (r)0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 10.381530 X +72.246
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.966893 X +1.167
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -13.168243 X +20.926
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051