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Question: How important do you personally think being useful to society is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States47.4%
2 Australia27.7%
3 France25.7%
4 United Kingdom23.2%
5 Germany21.1%
6 Sweden17.8%
7 Japan 15.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.959526 X +6.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 72193.496474 X +35169.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -18.251122 X +86.294
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.834
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.696

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.510921 X +1.461
Correlation coefficient (r)0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.835862 X +11.486
Correlation coefficient (r)0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070