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Question: How important do you personally think is it for a job to involve personal contact with other people?
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 France36.4%
2 Germany34.0%
3 Sweden27.5%
4 Australia23.3%
5 United States22.0%
6 United Kingdom21.1%
7 Japan 13.2%

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 = 2.438195 X +6.271
Correlation coefficient (r)0.452
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.204

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5392.365415 X +52201.222
Correlation coefficient (r)0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.241544 X +82.972
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.385425 X +1.240
Correlation coefficient (r)0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.404614 X +13.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005