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Question: How important do you personally think deciding times or days of work 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 Slovenia77.8%
2 Italy71.0%
3 Israel66.4%
4 Poland65.0%
5 Sweden63.8%
6 Spain62.5%
7 France59.8%
8 Switzerland59.2%
9 Netherlands58.6%
10 Norway56.2%
11 United States55.1%
12 Japan 54.4%
13 Canada53.0%
14 Denmark51.1%
15 Czech Republic49.7%
16 Portugal48.4%
17 Germany46.6%
18 Hungary44.4%
18 United Kingdom44.4%
20 New Zealand40.4%

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 = -0.213688 X +6.985
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9677.919433 X +53179.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.347578 X +78.578
Correlation coefficient (r)0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.425297 X +1.348
Correlation coefficient (r)0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.616429 X +11.228
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002