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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is interesting"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland91.2%
2 Denmark85.3%
2 United States85.3%
4 Ireland83.5%
5 Germany82.9%
6 Dominican Republic82.2%
7 Canada79.3%
8 New Zealand79.1%
9 Norway78.2%
10 Mexico77.3%
11 France76.7%
12 Portugal74.7%
13 Belgium74.6%
14 Australia74.5%
14 Slovenia74.5%
16 Finland 74.4%
17 Sweden73.9%
18 United Kingdom73.3%
19 Philippines72.3%
20 Israel65.7%
21 South Africa65.4%
22 Hungary61.0%
23 Czech Republic59.9%
24 Japan58.6%
25 Bulgaria57.6%
26 Russian Federation57.4%
27 Taiwan57.3%
28 Cyprus56.8%
29 Latvia56.4%
30 Spain55.2%
31 Republic of Korea42.6%

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 data31
Regression equation
Y = 3.374631 X +4.224
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 123022.167919 X -45351.479
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 7.383380 X +74.045
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.851999 X +1.052
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17.652899 X +25.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105