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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In order to avoid unemployment I would be willing to travel longer to get to work.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland72.6%
2 Germany69.5%
3 Ireland60.1%
4 United States58.8%
5 Finland57.5%
6 Latvia55.2%
7 Israel54.2%
8 Australia54.1%
9 Portugal53.0%
10 Denmark52.9%
11 Canada47.2%
11 New Zealand47.2%
11 Slovenia47.2%
14 United Kingdom 47.1%
15 Republic of Korea46.3%
16 Norway45.6%
16 Sweden45.6%
18 Mexico43.2%
19 France42.9%
20 Spain42.1%
21 Belgium40.2%
22 Hungary34.0%
23 Japan31.5%
24 Czech Republic23.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.154650 X +5.797
Correlation coefficient (r)0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 114159.045311 X -6675.232
Correlation coefficient (r)0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.906408 X +79.031
Correlation coefficient (r)0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.126693 X +1.529
Correlation coefficient (r)0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.208439 X +14.523
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002