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Question: How often do you have to do hard physical work?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Hardly ever" "Never"
Data: % of "Always" "Often"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland38.6%
2 Philippines 31.5%
3 Hungary30.7%
4 Israel28.9%
5 Russian Federation27.5%
6 Bangladesh26.8%
7 Bulgaria26.7%
8 Portugal26.5%
9 Canada26.2%
10 Sweden25.9%
11 New Zealand25.6%
12 Italy24.5%
13 Spain24.4%
14 Norway23.6%
15 Cyprus23.1%
16 Denmark21.9%
17 United Kingdom21.8%
18 United States21.6%
19 Germany20.7%
20 Czech Republic19.9%
21 France19.5%
22 Slovenia18.6%
23 Switzerland17.6%
24 Japan17.2%
25 Netherlands15.4%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = -5.911360 X +8.046
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.428
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.183

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -239947.017746 X +98634.025
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -39.662122 X +89.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.524
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.275

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.723553 X +1.208
Correlation coefficient (r)0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -23.343590 X +17.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054