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Question: How important do you personally think high income 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 Italy81.5%
2 Germany80.7%
3 Japan 80.2%
4 United States79.6%
5 Canada78.4%
6 France77.0%
7 United Kingdom76.4%
8 Sweden69.4%

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 = -6.655156 X +12.004
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -112182.609527 X +137265.628
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -5.825521 X +86.076
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.658313 X +3.596
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -21.235891 X +28.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057