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Question: Over the past 12 months, have you had any training to improve your job skills, either at the workplace or somewhere else?
Choices: "Yes" "No"
Data: % of "Yes"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia61.1%
2 Finland60.5%
3 United States60.1%
4 United Kingdom59.7%
5 Denmark58.2%
6 New Zealand57.3%
7 Canada56.5%
8 Switzerland55.5%
9 Norway54.0%
10 Slovenia53.1%
11 Ireland51.8%
12 Belgium50.6%
13 Sweden49.0%
14 France46.3%
15 Mexico39.4%
15 Republic of Korea39.4%
17 Germany39.1%
18 Latvia37.4%
19 Israel36.5%
20 Japan 35.3%
21 Czech Republic33.0%
22 Hungary31.3%
23 Spain24.1%
24 Portugal22.0%

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 = 3.186227 X +5.373
Correlation coefficient (r)0.689
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.475

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 124648.667791 X -8682.708
Correlation coefficient (r)0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.173076 X +78.542
Correlation coefficient (r)0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.045948 X +1.612
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.375125 X +12.809
Correlation coefficient (r)0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001