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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 temporary employment.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States78.0%
2 Australia72.7%
3 Germany72.2%
4 Sweden64.7%
5 Canada64.5%
6 United Kingdom61.9%
7 France58.0%
8 Republic of Korea46.4%
9 Japan 34.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.040827 X +4.932
Correlation coefficient (r)0.847
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.717

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 69155.987667 X +8871.369
Correlation coefficient (r)0.846
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.716

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.090055 X +88.651
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.735
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.540

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.109936 X +0.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -17.133643 X +25.294
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171