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Question: How important do you personally think job security is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Important"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary98.7%
2 Israel98.3%
3 Mexico97.8%
4 Spain97.5%
5 Germany96.9%
6 Republic of Korea96.7%
7 Portugal96.5%
8 Belgium95.8%
9 Australia94.8%
9 United Kingdom94.8%
11 Latvia94.7%
12 Ireland94.0%
13 Czech Republic93.9%
14 Finland93.7%
15 Slovenia93.6%
16 Norway93.3%
17 New Zealand92.9%
18 Sweden92.7%
19 Canada92.6%
19 Switzerland92.6%
21 United States92.5%
22 France91.7%
23 Japan 85.2%
24 Denmark81.4%

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 = -4.373207 X +10.953
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -207662.272080 X +243937.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -22.417224 X +101.978
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.251334 X +0.416
Correlation coefficient (r)0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -4.864153 X +18.011
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001