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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland99.0%
2 New Zealand97.9%
3 France97.8%
4 Germany97.7%
5 Norway97.6%
6 Sweden96.8%
7 Denmark95.9%
8 United Kingdom95.2%
8 United States95.2%
10 Canada94.9%
11 Israel94.2%
11 Italy94.2%
13 Netherlands93.3%
13 Slovenia93.3%
15 Poland91.0%
16 Spain89.5%
17 Philippines89.2%
18 Cyprus88.9%
19 Czech Republic88.6%
20 Portugal 86.5%
21 Russian Federation84.5%
22 Hungary82.2%
23 Japan80.4%
24 Bulgaria80.1%
25 Bangladesh71.0%

Note
Can't choose 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 = 8.746361 X -1.342
Correlation coefficient (r)0.859
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.738

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 260214.805877 X -196189.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.747
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.558

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 33.300667 X +49.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.120668 X +1.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 7.466576 X +4.690
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010