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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who tends to be lazy?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation23.6%
2 Republic of Korea23.0%
3 Taiwan20.5%
4 Dominican Republic19.5%
4 Latvia19.5%
6 Japan15.8%
7 Czech Republic15.6%
8 Israel15.2%
9 Germany13.7%
10 Mexico13.1%
11 Switzerland11.8%
12 Denmark11.2%
13 Philippines 9.8%
14 Ireland9.7%
15 United States8.1%
16 New Zealand7.4%
17 Netherlands7.2%
18 France6.3%
19 Belgium4.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 219 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -6.862733 X +7.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -228505.439597 X +74129.231
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.490
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.240

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -22.646635 X +82.287
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -1.085043 X +1.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 47.703583 X +6.950
Correlation coefficient (r)0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155