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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela87.9%
2 France70.8%
3 Iceland64.9%
4 Switzerland61.2%
5 Austria60.2%
6 Belgium58.5%
7 Denmark56.0%
8 Israel55.5%
9 Sweden53.7%
10 Georgia52.9%
11 Latvia52.6%
12 Australia51.8%
12 Germany51.8%
14 United States51.6%
15 Finland 51.4%
16 Spain49.1%
17 Mexico48.2%
18 Suriname47.7%
19 Slovenia46.2%
20 Norway45.5%
21 United Kingdom45.4%
22 Estonia44.7%
23 Chile44.6%
24 Poland44.3%
25 South Africa43.3%
26 Croatia42.1%
27 Russian Federation42.0%
28 Czech Republic41.0%
29 New Zealand40.8%
30 Lithuania40.7%
31 Philippines39.6%
32 Slovakia37.8%
33 India37.1%
34 Taiwan31.2%
35 Hungary26.7%
36 Japan21.7%
37 China16.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 201 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.603877 X +5.710
Correlation coefficient (r)0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 56937.511576 X +7928.761
Correlation coefficient (r)0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 5.482253 X +75.568
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 0.508916 X +1.480
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -8.120896 X +17.388
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031