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Question: How difficult or easy do you think it would be for you to find a job at least as good as your current one?
Choices: "Very easy" "Fairly easy" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Very easy" "Fairly easy"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States44.5%
2 Ireland 41.6%
3 Denmark36.8%
4 United Kingdom35.1%
5 Australia33.1%
6 Mexico32.3%
7 Canada31.5%
8 New Zealand31.0%
9 Spain28.1%
10 Finland25.1%
10 Israel25.1%
12 Norway24.4%
13 France22.1%
14 Latvia21.4%
15 Slovenia20.6%
16 Sweden19.6%
17 Republic of Korea18.6%
18 Switzerland18.4%
19 Japan16.1%
20 Czech Republic15.0%
21 Belgium14.4%
22 Portugal14.1%
23 Hungary13.5%
24 Germany11.5%

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 = 2.011674 X +6.351
Correlation coefficient (r)0.336
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.113

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 101203.635538 X +23985.942
Correlation coefficient (r)0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.707451 X +81.113
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.660166 X +1.427
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -21.655575 X +18.805
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154