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Question: How much responsibility goes with 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 United States86.8%
2 Germany85.5%
3 Italy85.0%
4 Australia82.1%
5 Sweden80.6%
6 France77.9%
7 United Kingdom76.6%
8 Japan 75.7%
9 Republic of Korea70.2%

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 = 5.686363 X +2.185
Correlation coefficient (r)0.620
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.384

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 131896.300712 X -56102.994
Correlation coefficient (r)0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -23.356393 X +100.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.608
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.370

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.683275 X -0.679
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -68.384272 X +68.949
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352