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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who tends to be lazy?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea23.0%
2 Japan 15.8%
3 Germany13.7%
4 United States8.1%
5 France6.3%

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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.791556 X +7.309
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -134190.008385 X +65758.623
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.666
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.444

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 24.252725 X +78.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.553516 X +2.179
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.977
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.955

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 75.567113 X +7.109
Correlation coefficient (r)0.769
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.591