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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In order to avoid unemployment I would be willing to accept a position with lower pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States60.0%
2 Germany52.0%
3 Australia49.7%
4 Republic of Korea46.4%
5 Canada40.6%
6 United Kingdom40.0%
7 Sweden32.5%
8 France30.3%
9 Japan 28.7%

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 = 1.075014 X +6.344
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 54589.537966 X +28256.731
Correlation coefficient (r)0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12.932517 X +87.308
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.292913 X +1.610
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.176705 X +11.746
Correlation coefficient (r)0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018