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Question: All things considered, how satisfied are you with your (main) job?
Choices: "Completely satisfied" "Very satisfied" "Fairly satisfied" "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied" "Fairly dissatisfied" "Very dissatisfied" "Completely dissatisfied"
Average score (as "Completely satisfied"=7 "Very satisfied"=6 "Fairly satisfied"=5 "Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied"=4 "Fairly dissatisfied"=3 "Very dissatisfied"=2 "Completely dissatisfied"=1)
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States5.39
2 Canada5.29
3 Sweden5.24
4 Germany5.22
5 Australia5.19
6 United Kingdom5.15
7 France5.10
8 Republic of Korea4.80
9 Japan 4.56

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.673590 X -1.744
Correlation coefficient (r)0.881
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.776

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 34441.310008 X -124485.976
Correlation coefficient (r)0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.969691 X +112.316
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.749
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.561

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.627461 X -1.716
Correlation coefficient (r)0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.010781 X +65.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209