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Question: Is your pay just? We are not asking about how much you would like to earn - but what you feel is just given your skills and effort. If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" "About just for me" "More than is just" "Much more than is just" "Never had a job"
Data: % of "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovakia86.9%
2 Russian Federation84.0%
3 Bulgaria83.7%
4 Portugal 81.6%
5 Poland81.5%
6 Chile79.0%
7 Hungary72.0%
8 Philippines70.4%
9 Latvia70.3%
10 Slovenia68.7%
11 Cyprus68.4%
12 Spain68.2%
13 Israel67.2%
14 Switzerland66.9%
15 France64.7%
16 Czech Republic64.5%
17 Japan62.6%
18 Norway61.2%
19 Uruguay59.4%
20 Canada58.6%
21 New Zealand54.8%
22 United States52.2%
23 Germany47.1%
24 Austria46.8%
25 Australia45.4%

Note
Those who answer "Never had a job"/ 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 = -3.590417 X +8.951
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.716
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.513

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -124095.132497 X +120115.800
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -16.121084 X +90.124
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.060738 X +1.666
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.538355 X +13.869
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001