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Question: Over the past 12 months, have you had any training to improve your job skills, either at the workplace or somewhere else?
Choices: "Yes" "No"
Data: % of "Yes"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia61.1%
2 United States60.1%
3 United Kingdom59.7%
4 Canada56.5%
5 Sweden49.0%
6 France46.3%
7 Republic of Korea39.4%
8 Germany39.1%
9 Japan 35.3%

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 = 3.197627 X +5.212
Correlation coefficient (r)0.653
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.426

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 79494.192725 X +11879.825
Correlation coefficient (r)0.713
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.508

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.889079 X +87.247
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.530
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.281

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.195323 X +0.894
Correlation coefficient (r)0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -26.940105 X +28.143
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.478
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228