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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - It is the responsibility of private companies to reduce the differences in pay between their employees with high pay and those with low pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France74.5%
2 United Kingdom70.5%
3 Germany64.7%
4 Australia63.7%
5 Italy60.4%
6 United States59.4%
7 Sweden58.3%
8 Japan 45.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.157541 X +5.498
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 9758.455214 X +45250.284
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.551410 X +86.412
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.311
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.272703 X +0.758
Correlation coefficient (r)0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.376644 X +21.335
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138