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Question: How well he or she does 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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States92.9%
2 Germany89.1%
3 Italy86.0%
4 Sweden85.4%
5 Republic of Korea81.7%
6 Japan 79.8%
7 United Kingdom76.9%
8 Australia76.7%
9 France74.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.524452 X +5.478
Correlation coefficient (r)0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 65848.576443 X -4896.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -20.929754 X +99.192
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.396624 X +1.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.272794 X +9.858
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003