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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is useful to society"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States81.4%
2 Canada74.0%
3 Germany69.7%
4 Australia68.2%
5 France67.2%
6 Sweden66.1%
7 United Kingdom63.2%
8 Japan 61.2%
9 Republic of Korea48.9%

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 = 3.772292 X +4.284
Correlation coefficient (r)0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 101699.536518 X -16470.613
Correlation coefficient (r)0.805
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.648

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -16.915175 X +93.119
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.726
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.527

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.188650 X +0.028
Correlation coefficient (r)0.695
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.483

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -37.221816 X +39.588
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340