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Question: How important do you personally think working independently 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 Germany90.7%
2 Sweden83.4%
3 United States79.4%
4 Canada71.5%
5 Italy68.6%
6 United Kingdom67.2%
7 France61.4%
8 Japan 39.1%

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 = 2.256616 X +5.236
Correlation coefficient (r)0.859
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.738

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 42413.164078 X +20117.239
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -8.108073 X +87.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.356962 X +1.275
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.055976 X +13.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002