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Question: How important do you personally think good opportunities for advancement 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 Philippines 91.4%
2 Israel89.1%
3 United States88.6%
4 Bangladesh88.4%
5 Spain87.4%
6 Cyprus85.2%
7 New Zealand83.6%
8 Portugal82.2%
9 Slovenia81.8%
10 Canada81.4%
11 Italy80.6%
12 United Kingdom79.7%
13 Netherlands79.0%
14 Bulgaria74.4%
14 Germany74.4%
16 Poland74.1%
17 Hungary73.9%
18 France70.4%
19 Switzerland64.7%
20 Russian Federation59.3%
21 Norway52.9%
22 Sweden50.8%
23 Czech Republic49.5%
24 Denmark44.1%
25 Japan30.2%

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 = -0.835647 X +7.224
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -44754.800896 X +73125.219
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.135393 X +84.095
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.595292 X +1.192
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -14.383841 X +21.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203