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Question: How hard he or she works at the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy88.4%
2 United States88.3%
3 Republic of Korea79.4%
4 United Kingdom76.7%
5 Germany76.3%
6 Australia76.0%
7 Japan 73.4%
8 Sweden68.5%
9 France56.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.639451 X +7.222
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7381.511241 X +43869.279
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.316977 X +88.225
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.429466 X +2.554
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.480
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.230

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.151009 X +16.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002