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Question: How important do you personally think helping other people 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 Italy83.3%
2 United States80.7%
3 Canada74.1%
4 United Kingdom72.9%
5 Sweden70.1%
6 Japan 69.2%
7 Germany67.7%
8 France60.9%

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 = -0.113405 X +6.902
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 19370.932808 X +35858.084
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -12.006903 X +90.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.551572 X +2.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.996320 X +25.348
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141