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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who does a thorough job?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States96.6%
2 France96.2%
3 Germany94.8%
4 Republic of Korea68.4%
5 Japan 67.6%

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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 3.245225 X +3.785
Correlation coefficient (r)0.957
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.916

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 65091.866102 X -7341.829
Correlation coefficient (r)0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -14.131962 X +93.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.769
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.591

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.062640 X -0.311
Correlation coefficient (r)0.835
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.697

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -27.304147 X +40.352
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408