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Question: How often do you have to do hard physical work?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Hardly ever" "Never"
Data: % of "Always" "Often"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea34.9%
2 Latvia31.5%
3 Mexico28.7%
4 Spain27.8%
5 Hungary27.2%
6 Sweden26.8%
7 Denmark26.1%
8 Portugal25.8%
9 Israel25.4%
10 United States24.3%
11 Germany24.1%
12 Finland24.0%
13 New Zealand22.9%
14 Ireland22.5%
15 France21.5%
16 United Kingdom20.4%
17 Australia20.2%
18 Norway19.9%
19 Switzerland19.7%
20 Slovenia19.5%
21 Belgium19.2%
22 Czech Republic19.0%
23 Japan 18.8%
24 Canada18.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -5.165888 X +8.073
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.404
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.163

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -214004.281095 X +99739.723
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -20.072695 X +85.694
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.781092 X +1.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 31.178838 X +6.058
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070