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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "In my job I can help other people"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines93.0%
2 Portugal 85.0%
3 United States80.3%
4 Denmark78.2%
5 Slovenia77.4%
6 New Zealand76.6%
7 Israel76.1%
8 Canada75.3%
9 Hungary74.0%
10 Norway71.1%
11 United Kingdom69.1%
12 Switzerland66.9%
13 Czech Republic66.8%
14 France66.6%
15 Bulgaria66.0%
16 Cyprus65.4%
17 Sweden65.1%
18 Netherlands64.5%
19 Bangladesh63.5%
20 Spain62.2%
21 Poland60.3%
22 Italy57.7%
23 Russian Federation56.2%
24 Germany51.6%
25 Japan50.0%

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 = 1.112361 X +5.852
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 6295.768737 X +36266.921
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.930199 X +83.713
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.672191 X +0.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.440764 X +18.663
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042