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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France97.8%
2 Germany97.7%
3 Sweden96.8%
4 United Kingdom95.2%
4 United States95.2%
6 Canada94.9%
7 Italy94.2%
8 Japan 80.4%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 5.758697 X +1.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.789
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.623

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 77964.668047 X -23430.904
Correlation coefficient (r)0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -19.864904 X +100.215
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.817008 X -0.183
Correlation coefficient (r)0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -13.654270 X +25.163
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051