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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France70.8%
2 Iceland64.9%
3 Switzerland61.2%
4 Austria60.2%
5 Belgium58.5%
6 Denmark56.0%
7 Israel55.5%
8 Sweden53.7%
9 Latvia52.6%
10 Australia51.8%
10 Germany51.8%
12 United States51.6%
13 Finland51.4%
14 Spain49.1%
15 Mexico48.2%
16 Slovenia46.2%
17 Norway45.5%
18 United Kingdom45.4%
19 Estonia44.7%
20 Chile44.6%
21 Poland44.3%
22 Czech Republic41.0%
23 New Zealand40.8%
24 Lithuania40.7%
25 Slovakia37.8%
26 Hungary26.7%
27 Japan 21.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2015

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 2.874960 X +5.433
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 103403.085231 X -6180.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 8.509780 X +76.054
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.721687 X +1.266
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.328724 X +15.485
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010