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Question: Whether the job requires supervising others ? 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" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia96.0%
2 United States95.4%
3 France91.9%
4 Canada91.4%
5 Germany84.6%
6 Japan 71.8%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 3.828081 X +3.432
Correlation coefficient (r)0.845
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.714

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 95059.778989 X -30839.248
Correlation coefficient (r)0.773
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.598

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -15.006161 X +94.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.183855 X +0.505
Correlation coefficient (r)0.616
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.379

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -4.513533 X +17.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056