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Question: How much responsibility goes with the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany87.9%
2 United States82.4%
3 Australia79.6%
4 Canada77.8%
5 Sweden76.1%
6 United Kingdom75.5%
7 Japan 73.1%
8 France72.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 3.497047 X +4.174
Correlation coefficient (r)0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 97498.468900 X -22788.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -22.457963 X +99.195
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.250718 X +1.763
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.016405 X +13.037
Correlation coefficient (r)0.000
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000