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Question: Whether the job requires supervising others ? 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" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia96.0%
2 New Zealand95.8%
3 United States95.4%
4 Cyprus94.1%
5 Uruguay93.9%
6 Slovenia93.1%
7 Switzerland92.6%
8 Chile92.2%
9 France91.9%
10 Canada91.4%
11 Latvia91.0%
12 Philippines90.5%
13 Portugal 90.3%
14 Bulgaria90.1%
15 Norway89.7%
16 Poland89.6%
17 Hungary89.2%
18 Spain89.0%
19 Israel88.2%
20 Slovakia87.6%
21 Czech Republic87.2%
22 Austria86.5%
23 Germany84.6%
24 Russian Federation83.2%
25 Japan71.8%

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 = 3.396490 X +3.508
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 70662.950087 X -26038.663
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.016238 X +80.293
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.812480 X +0.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -15.535013 X +26.794
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021