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Question: Is your pay just? We are not asking about how much you would like to earn - but what you feel is just given your skills and effort. If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" "About just for me" "More than is just" "Much more than is just" "Never had a job"
Data: % of "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy64.6%
2 France62.6%
3 Sweden60.9%
4 Japan 56.9%
5 Germany52.0%
6 Republic of Korea51.1%
7 United States48.0%
8 United Kingdom47.0%
9 Australia46.0%

Note
Those who answer "Never had a job"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.341102 X +7.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -79437.692804 X +92642.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.452
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.204

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 9.912421 X +76.524
Correlation coefficient (r)0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.191825 X +1.365
Correlation coefficient (r)0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -16.885385 X +23.387
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036