Tweet
Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My job is useful to society"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria88.7%
2 Portugal 88.0%
3 Philippines86.4%
4 Bangladesh80.0%
4 Poland80.0%
6 Slovenia79.6%
7 Hungary79.0%
8 Czech Republic78.5%
9 Denmark78.4%
10 Israel75.7%
11 Spain74.6%
12 Russian Federation73.2%
13 Switzerland71.8%
14 Norway70.9%
15 United States70.7%
16 Cyprus70.2%
17 Canada69.5%
18 Sweden67.3%
19 New Zealand67.1%
20 France66.5%
21 Germany65.2%
22 Netherlands62.0%
23 Japan60.9%
24 Italy57.7%
25 United Kingdom56.8%

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 = -3.559861 X +9.206
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -132656.126295 X +137100.319
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.480
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.230

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -25.411014 X +98.122
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.268970 X +0.701
Correlation coefficient (r)0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.936445 X +15.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007