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Question: How much responsibility goes with the job ? 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"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria93.6%
2 Cyprus90.5%
3 United States86.8%
4 Austria85.6%
5 Germany85.5%
6 Italy85.0%
7 Chile84.4%
7 Turkiye84.4%
9 Slovakia84.3%
10 South Africa83.7%
11 Taiwan83.1%
12 Australia82.1%
13 Russian Federation81.6%
14 New Zealand81.4%
15 Finland81.2%
15 Poland81.2%
17 Spain81.1%
18 Hungary80.6%
18 Sweden80.6%
20 Czech Republic80.2%
20 Portugal80.2%
22 Argentina80.0%
23 Croatia79.7%
24 Switzerland 79.2%
25 Lithuania79.0%
26 France77.9%
27 China77.5%
28 Ukraine77.3%
29 United Kingdom76.6%
30 Latvia76.1%
31 Norway76.0%
32 Venezuela75.8%
33 Japan75.7%
34 Estonia74.6%
35 Israel73.1%
36 Iceland72.0%
37 Philippines70.5%
38 Republic of Korea70.2%
39 Belgium69.5%
40 Denmark66.9%
41 Slovenia65.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -2.492125 X +8.413
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -58230.864144 X +81143.914
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -12.252871 X +88.495
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.951095 X +2.384
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -19.964242 X +28.952
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035