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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland98.8%
2 Ireland97.8%
2 Norway97.8%
4 France97.4%
5 New Zealand97.1%
6 Australia96.8%
6 Denmark96.8%
8 Canada96.4%
8 Israel96.4%
10 United Kingdom95.9%
11 Finland95.8%
12 Sweden94.9%
13 Belgium94.8%
14 Germany94.6%
14 Portugal94.6%
16 United States94.5%
17 Slovenia94.2%
18 Mexico92.5%
19 South Africa91.8%
20 Republic of Korea91.1%
21 Dominican Republic90.6%
22 Spain90.3%
23 Latvia89.8%
24 Bulgaria88.8%
25 Philippines87.9%
26 Czech Republic86.9%
27 Taiwan85.1%
28 Russian Federation85.0%
29 Hungary 80.9%
30 Cyprus76.6%
30 Japan76.6%

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 = 7.027309 X +0.148
Correlation coefficient (r)0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 245554.357603 X -184190.125
Correlation coefficient (r)0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 23.063497 X +58.042
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.880101 X +0.846
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.050559 X +14.946
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000