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Question: How much do you agree or disagree, thinking of work in general, with the statement "I would enjoy having a paid job even if I did not need the money."?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree".
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark78.2%
2 Sweden75.3%
3 Norway73.8%
4 Bangladesh72.7%
5 Germany71.3%
6 Poland70.7%
7 Israel70.2%
8 Switzerland69.8%
9 Japan69.4%
10 New Zealand67.6%
11 Portugal63.2%
12 United States59.8%
13 Hungary56.8%
14 Philippines 56.7%
15 United Kingdom55.0%
16 Canada53.4%
17 France52.7%
18 Italy52.2%
19 Spain51.8%
20 Netherlands51.7%
21 Cyprus47.2%
22 Czech Republic46.9%
23 Russian Federation45.1%
24 Slovenia43.0%
25 Bulgaria35.9%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.376494 X +5.200
Correlation coefficient (r)0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 95139.288526 X -16122.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 10.920644 X +73.126
Correlation coefficient (r)0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.589013 X +1.273
Correlation coefficient (r)0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.651091 X +14.853
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016