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Question: How important do you personally think deciding times or days of work is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden70.3%
2 Republic of Korea68.1%
3 Canada59.6%
4 France59.0%
5 Australia55.3%
6 United States54.2%
7 United Kingdom53.7%
8 Germany53.2%
9 Japan 52.1%

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 = -0.056299 X +6.831
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -21236.886101 X +63717.760
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 8.093032 X +77.119
Correlation coefficient (r)0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.325720 X +2.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 48.764974 X -13.696
Correlation coefficient (r)0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321