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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "Without trade unions the working conditions of employees would be much worse than they are"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany73.4%
2 Republic of Korea68.8%
3 Australia65.4%
4 France65.0%
5 United States61.4%
6 Japan 59.5%
7 Canada52.0%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.548003 X +7.043
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -27072.242811 X +67890.692
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.748742 X +81.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.354836 X +1.677
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 25.070053 X -0.184
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086