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Question: How often do you find your work stressful?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Hardly ever" "Never"
Data: % of "Always" "Often"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France45.9%
2 Sweden44.6%
3 Hungary43.2%
4 Cyprus40.1%
5 Germany39.2%
6 Italy39.1%
6 Philippines39.1%
8 Portugal 38.6%
9 Canada38.1%
10 Israel37.9%
11 Japan37.4%
12 Norway36.5%
13 Poland35.9%
14 Slovenia35.1%
15 Spain34.7%
16 New Zealand34.4%
17 United Kingdom33.8%
18 Bulgaria33.1%
18 Russian Federation33.1%
20 Switzerland30.1%
21 Bangladesh29.8%
22 Denmark29.2%
23 Netherlands27.6%
24 Czech Republic20.9%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.123876 X +7.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -13217.226335 X +44124.354
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 11.204789 X +75.730
Correlation coefficient (r)0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.224746 X +1.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.193824 X +11.222
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000