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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is useful to society"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States70.7%
2 Canada69.5%
3 Sweden67.3%
4 France66.5%
5 Germany65.2%
6 Japan 60.9%
7 Italy57.7%
8 United Kingdom56.8%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = 3.981960 X +4.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 157973.829343 X -51741.291
Correlation coefficient (r)0.762
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.581

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.249955 X +92.634
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.759658 X +0.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 47.406128 X -18.169
Correlation coefficient (r)0.727
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.529