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Question: If you had only one of these three choices, which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "Work longer hours and earn more money" "Work the same number of hours and earn the same money" "Work fewer hours and earn less money"
Data: % of "Work fewer hours and earn less money"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark15.9%
2 Norway15.4%
3 France13.7%
4 Netherlands13.5%
5 Switzerland13.4%
6 Japan12.8%
7 Sweden12.1%
8 Spain11.8%
9 Italy10.2%
10 Bangladesh9.3%
11 Germany9.0%
12 Canada8.6%
13 United Kingdom8.5%
14 Portugal 8.4%
15 New Zealand8.1%
16 United States7.9%
17 Cyprus7.5%
18 Philippines6.8%
19 Israel6.0%
20 Hungary5.9%
21 Czech Republic4.3%
22 Russian Federation3.7%
23 Slovenia2.8%
24 Poland1.8%
25 Bulgaria0.9%

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 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 9.077443 X +5.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.531
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.282

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 388912.732823 X +6635.780
Correlation coefficient (r)0.666
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.444

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 57.941806 X +74.577
Correlation coefficient (r)0.619
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.383

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.272293 X +1.735
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.334412 X +12.561
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010