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Question: How important do you personally think deciding times or days of work is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia77.8%
2 Philippines 75.4%
3 Italy71.0%
4 Russian Federation68.4%
5 Bulgaria67.7%
6 Cyprus67.2%
7 Israel66.4%
8 Poland65.0%
9 Sweden63.8%
10 Spain62.5%
11 France59.8%
12 Switzerland59.2%
13 Netherlands58.6%
14 Norway56.2%
15 United States55.1%
16 Japan54.4%
17 Canada53.0%
18 Denmark51.1%
19 Czech Republic49.7%
20 Portugal48.4%
21 Germany46.6%
22 Hungary44.4%
22 United Kingdom44.4%
24 New Zealand40.4%
25 Bangladesh39.1%

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 = -0.881972 X +7.126
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -35677.448722 X +61225.768
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.224824 X +82.079
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.439413 X +1.370
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.619727 X +10.547
Correlation coefficient (r)0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001