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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:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany90.6%
2 Israel89.1%
3 New Zealand88.7%
4 Austria86.0%
5 Italy85.0%
6 Finland82.3%
7 Chile81.4%
8 Sweden80.2%
9 Australia79.2%
10 United States78.4%
11 Norway75.8%
12 Lithuania75.4%
13 Iceland73.7%
14 Switzerland73.1%
15 United Kingdom72.5%
16 Japan 70.6%
17 Czech Republic70.1%
18 Slovenia69.8%
19 France68.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 19 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.750875 X +5.619
Correlation coefficient (r)0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 7089.337674 X +45211.620
Correlation coefficient (r)0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 2.655894 X +79.243
Correlation coefficient (r)0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.952007 X +0.872
Correlation coefficient (r)0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -25.154943 X +32.928
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145