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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who does a thorough job?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland97.4%
2 Ireland96.8%
3 United States96.6%
4 France96.2%
4 New Zealand96.2%
6 Denmark96.1%
7 Netherlands95.9%
8 Germany94.8%
9 Belgium92.7%
10 Israel92.5%
11 Russian Federation90.3%
11 Taiwan90.3%
13 Latvia89.7%
14 Mexico89.2%
15 Dominican Republic87.1%
16 Philippines 78.6%
17 Czech Republic72.3%
18 Republic of Korea68.4%
19 Japan67.6%

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 = 3.776653 X +3.300
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 140649.871488 X -81582.809
Correlation coefficient (r)0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 2.100387 X +77.468
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.835981 X +0.990
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -14.188484 X +25.772
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043