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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "I can work independently"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada85.9%
2 Germany85.8%
3 Australia81.5%
4 United Kingdom80.6%
5 United States80.0%
6 Sweden79.1%
7 France67.0%
8 Republic of Korea58.2%
9 Japan 39.9%

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 = 2.821998 X +4.735
Correlation coefficient (r)0.876
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.767

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 49229.274976 X +15325.708
Correlation coefficient (r)0.671
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.450

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.138836 X +87.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.805654 X +0.898
Correlation coefficient (r)0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -18.395685 X +28.227
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245