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Question: How well he or she does the job ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus93.7%
2 United States91.8%
3 Austria91.4%
3 Germany91.4%
5 New Zealand88.6%
6 Israel87.8%
7 Slovakia86.6%
8 Canada86.5%
9 Australia85.2%
10 Russian Federation84.5%
11 Hungary84.0%
12 Philippines83.4%
13 Sweden81.2%
14 Czech Republic80.9%
15 Portugal 80.3%
16 Bulgaria80.1%
17 Latvia79.9%
18 Japan79.8%
19 France79.6%
20 Chile77.7%
21 United Kingdom77.5%
22 Poland77.0%
23 Norway75.4%
24 Spain74.1%
25 Slovenia72.8%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.234691 X +4.720
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 75390.638989 X -25175.557
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.390892 X +81.445
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.891414 X +0.879
Correlation coefficient (r)0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.002438 X +20.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.114
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013