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Question: How important do you personally think high income 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 Bulgaria99.4%
2 Philippines96.1%
3 Latvia95.4%
4 Spain95.2%
5 Russian Federation94.6%
6 Israel94.3%
7 Dominican Republic93.7%
8 Hungary92.9%
8 South Africa92.9%
10 Republic of Korea92.6%
11 Portugal92.0%
12 Mexico91.9%
13 Slovenia91.4%
14 Cyprus89.0%
15 Czech Republic84.7%
16 France82.6%
17 Canada82.3%
18 Finland 81.8%
19 Germany81.7%
20 Belgium79.6%
21 United States79.4%
22 Ireland78.4%
23 Japan78.1%
24 Sweden74.3%
25 Taiwan73.7%
26 United Kingdom73.4%
27 Australia71.3%
28 Norway69.8%
29 New Zealand69.5%
30 Denmark59.5%
31 Switzerland58.8%

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 = -4.698681 X +10.531
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -183225.487458 X +194542.316
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.787
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.619

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -23.615063 X +99.097
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.881967 X +0.917
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.101157 X +11.294
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001