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Question: How important do you personally think deciding times or days of work is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic81.7%
2 Mexico78.6%
3 Spain77.9%
4 Bulgaria77.5%
5 Slovenia77.1%
6 Finland 72.2%
7 Sweden70.3%
8 Philippines69.7%
9 Switzerland69.2%
10 Portugal68.8%
11 Republic of Korea68.1%
12 Latvia67.8%
13 Israel67.0%
14 Taiwan66.9%
15 South Africa65.8%
16 Belgium64.2%
17 Ireland61.5%
18 Norway61.1%
19 Denmark60.9%
20 New Zealand60.6%
21 Canada59.6%
22 France59.0%
23 Australia55.3%
24 Russian Federation54.6%
25 United States54.2%
26 United Kingdom53.7%
27 Czech Republic53.2%
27 Germany53.2%
29 Japan52.1%
30 Cyprus51.4%
31 Hungary47.6%

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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -1.265987 X +7.414
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -71378.379150 X +87051.127
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.015196 X +84.400
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.004416 X +1.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.395737 X +19.051
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020