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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is useful to society"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic83.9%
2 Mexico83.0%
3 Switzerland82.8%
4 Bulgaria81.9%
5 United States81.4%
6 Philippines80.6%
7 Ireland79.9%
8 Portugal78.9%
9 Latvia77.9%
9 Taiwan77.9%
11 Cyprus76.5%
12 Russian Federation75.7%
13 Hungary75.4%
14 Czech Republic75.2%
15 Canada74.0%
16 Slovenia73.9%
17 Denmark73.7%
18 Norway70.6%
19 Germany69.7%
20 Israel68.6%
21 South Africa68.4%
22 New Zealand68.3%
23 Australia68.2%
24 France67.2%
25 Sweden66.1%
26 Spain63.9%
27 United Kingdom63.2%
28 Finland 62.0%
29 Japan61.2%
30 Belgium58.0%
31 Republic of Korea48.9%

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 = -1.551349 X +7.725
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -42258.080341 X +71935.258
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -23.648307 X +96.306
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.706545 X +0.429
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -31.360441 X +35.626
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176