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Question: How well he or she does the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany90.2%
2 United States88.6%
3 Sweden86.6%
4 Italy85.6%
5 United Kingdom77.1%
6 Australia75.0%
7 Japan 74.5%
8 France68.1%

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 = 1.980790 X +5.238
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 46514.041998 X +13763.979
Correlation coefficient (r)0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.366521 X +93.321
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.612547 X +2.042
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.336901 X +13.492
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001