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Question: All things considered, how satisfied are you with your (main) job?
Choices: "Completely satisfied" "Very satisfied" "Fairly satisfied" "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied" "Fairly dissatisfied" "Very dissatisfied" "Completely dissatisfied"
Average score (as "Completely satisfied"=6 "Very satisfied"=5 "Fairly satisfied"=4 "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied"=3 "Fairly dissatisfied"=2 "Very dissatisfied"=1 "Completely dissatisfied"=0)
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico4.78
2 Switzerland4.60
3 Austria4.47
4 Ireland 4.45
5 Denmark4.43
6 Cyprus4.36
7 Philippines4.32
7 United States4.32
9 Belgium4.22
10 Germany4.21
11 Norway4.20
12 New Zealand4.19
13 Sweden4.18
14 Chile4.17
15 Portugal4.16
16 Netherlands4.15
16 Slovenia4.15
18 Israel4.13
19 Hungary4.12
20 Finland4.11
21 Australia4.09
22 France4.07
22 United Kingdom4.07
24 Brazil4.06
25 Spain4.05
26 Slovakia3.96
27 Taiwan3.95
28 Poland3.94
29 Czech Republic3.93
29 Japan3.93
31 Russian Federation3.89
32 Latvia3.80
33 Bulgaria3.68

Note
Those who do not work, 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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.110865 X +2.063
Correlation coefficient (r)0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 46826.970406 X -153508.567
Correlation coefficient (r)0.421
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.177

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 3.702376 X +64.193
Correlation coefficient (r)0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.268989 X +0.508
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -6.601577 X +39.621
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092