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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is interesting"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States85.3%
2 Germany82.9%
3 Canada79.3%
4 France76.7%
5 Australia74.5%
6 Sweden73.9%
7 United Kingdom73.3%
8 Japan 58.6%
9 Republic of Korea42.6%

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 = 3.073595 X +4.589
Correlation coefficient (r)0.827
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.684

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 62780.989302 X +6178.246
Correlation coefficient (r)0.742
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.551

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.484696 X +89.383
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.761564 X +0.220
Correlation coefficient (r)0.835
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.697

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -32.521767 X +38.161
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.760
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.578