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Question: How important do you personally think working independently 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 Denmark89.1%
2 Switzerland88.2%
3 Germany88.0%
4 Dominican Republic86.1%
5 Portugal85.6%
6 Mexico85.4%
6 Slovenia85.4%
8 Israel84.7%
9 Philippines84.6%
10 Canada84.2%
11 Ireland82.8%
11 New Zealand82.8%
13 Spain81.8%
14 Norway81.5%
15 Sweden80.8%
16 United States79.4%
17 South Africa79.3%
18 Australia78.5%
19 Finland 77.3%
20 Belgium75.8%
21 Hungary72.8%
22 United Kingdom72.4%
23 Bulgaria71.1%
24 Republic of Korea70.8%
25 Cyprus66.3%
26 Latvia64.0%
27 Czech Republic60.9%
27 France60.9%
29 Russian Federation60.6%
30 Taiwan52.0%
31 Japan36.3%

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 = 1.900041 X +5.165
Correlation coefficient (r)0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 51886.626381 X +2119.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.246
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.205760 X +79.444
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.012868 X +0.881
Correlation coefficient (r)0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -16.835560 X +25.949
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095