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Question: In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be how well the person does the job?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria97.8%
2 Poland94.9%
3 United States93.1%
4 France93.0%
5 Germany92.2%
6 Philippines 91.5%
7 Cyprus91.2%
7 Czech Republic91.2%
9 Canada90.8%
10 Switzerland90.6%
11 Russian Federation89.4%
12 New Zealand89.2%
13 Slovenia88.8%
14 Hungary88.0%
15 Sweden87.7%
16 Israel85.9%
16 United Kingdom85.9%
18 Italy85.7%
19 Spain83.6%
20 Netherlands80.0%
21 Portugal78.7%
22 Japan78.3%
23 Bangladesh77.0%
24 Denmark74.5%
25 Norway64.7%

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 = -1.778638 X +8.156
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -100456.678727 X +127538.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -17.527394 X +94.806
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.274985 X +1.386
Correlation coefficient (r)0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 7.083298 X +5.354
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010