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Question: How difficult or easy do you think it would be for you to find a job at least as good as your current one?
Choices: "Very easy" "Fairly easy" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Very easy" "Fairly easy"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States44.5%
2 United Kingdom35.1%
3 Australia33.1%
4 Canada31.5%
5 France22.1%
6 Sweden19.6%
7 Republic of Korea18.6%
8 Japan 16.1%
9 Germany11.5%

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 = 1.690145 X +6.363
Correlation coefficient (r)0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 65189.397854 X +34506.156
Correlation coefficient (r)0.620
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.384

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12.317411 X +85.021
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.741006 X +1.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.915186 X +18.624
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078