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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany97.8%
2 United Kingdom96.5%
3 United States94.6%
4 Italy94.5%
5 France92.9%
6 Sweden92.1%
7 Canada89.9%
8 Japan 84.6%

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 = 5.465122 X +1.744
Correlation coefficient (r)0.549
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.301

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 64045.818648 X -9599.173
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -31.419830 X +110.715
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.631
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.398

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.399469 X +0.225
Correlation coefficient (r)0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -36.094717 X +45.843
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191