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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:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria92.4%
2 Israel91.6%
3 New Zealand91.4%
4 Germany90.2%
5 United States88.6%
6 Sweden86.6%
7 Italy85.6%
8 Switzerland85.5%
9 Iceland83.9%
10 Slovenia83.5%
11 Finland82.4%
12 Chile79.0%
13 Lithuania78.9%
14 Czech Republic77.2%
15 United Kingdom77.1%
16 Australia75.0%
17 Japan 74.5%
18 Norway72.7%
19 France68.1%

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 = 2.400285 X +5.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 35547.249116 X +21506.786
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -2.329169 X +83.244
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.013655 X +0.784
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -8.514567 X +20.210
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017