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Question: How much of your past work experience and /or job skills can you make use of in your present job?
Choices: "Almost none" "A little" "A lot" "Almost all"
Data: % of "A lot" "Almost all"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden84.5%
2 Germany74.5%
3 Canada70.7%
4 Australia70.3%
5 United States67.3%
6 United Kingdom65.4%
7 France58.3%
8 Republic of Korea54.2%
9 Japan 43.7%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.790312 X +4.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.916
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.839

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 65243.314842 X +8626.902
Correlation coefficient (r)0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.998186 X +86.424
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.041859 X +0.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.444
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.197

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -18.056739 X +26.593
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144