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Question: How important do you personally think helping other people 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 States42.1%
2 Australia24.2%
3 United Kingdom22.1%
4 France21.6%
5 Sweden20.9%
6 Germany20.7%
7 Japan 11.2%

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 = 2.106065 X +6.400
Correlation coefficient (r)0.454
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.206

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 94637.270599 X +31558.646
Correlation coefficient (r)0.806
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.650

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -22.409233 X +86.855
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.901
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.812

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.690328 X +1.431
Correlation coefficient (r)0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.293479 X +11.765
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046