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Question: How important do you personally think being interesting is in a job?
Choices: "Very important" "Important" "Neither important nor unimportant" "Not important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland99.0%
2 New Zealand97.9%
3 France97.8%
4 Germany97.7%
5 Norway97.6%
6 Sweden96.8%
7 Denmark95.9%
8 United Kingdom95.2%
8 United States95.2%
10 Canada94.9%
11 Israel94.2%
11 Italy94.2%
13 Netherlands93.3%
13 Slovenia93.3%
15 Poland91.0%
16 Spain89.5%
17 Czech Republic88.6%
18 Portugal86.5%
19 Hungary82.2%
20 Japan 80.4%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 7.683243 X -0.285
Correlation coefficient (r)0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 270103.349220 X -203635.977
Correlation coefficient (r)0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 12.819653 X +69.100
Correlation coefficient (r)0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.324496 X +0.355
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -11.449658 X +22.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029