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Question: How important do you personally think good opportunities for advancement 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 United States88.6%
2 Canada81.4%
3 Italy80.6%
4 United Kingdom79.7%
5 Germany74.4%
6 France70.4%
7 Sweden50.8%
8 Japan 30.2%

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 = 0.899093 X +6.195
Correlation coefficient (r)0.423
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.179

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 16321.090317 X +38530.177
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -8.144769 X +87.199
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.111115 X +1.448
Correlation coefficient (r)0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.609035 X +17.614
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187