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Question: How well he or she does 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 United States91.8%
2 Germany91.4%
3 Canada86.5%
4 Australia85.2%
5 Sweden81.2%
6 Japan 79.8%
7 France79.6%
8 United Kingdom77.5%

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 = 2.440572 X +4.853
Correlation coefficient (r)0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 110081.960001 X -39224.074
Correlation coefficient (r)0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -23.557109 X +101.467
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.604
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.365

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.249935 X +1.778
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 14.534732 X +0.823
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095