Tweet
Question: How important do you personally think good opportunities for advancement 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 Israel89.1%
2 United States88.6%
3 Spain87.4%
4 New Zealand83.6%
5 Portugal82.2%
6 Slovenia81.8%
7 Canada81.4%
8 Italy80.6%
9 United Kingdom79.7%
10 Netherlands79.0%
11 Germany74.4%
12 Poland74.1%
13 Hungary73.9%
14 France70.4%
15 Switzerland64.7%
16 Norway52.9%
17 Sweden50.8%
18 Czech Republic49.5%
19 Denmark44.1%
20 Japan 30.2%

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 = -0.301537 X +7.079
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -27906.782263 X +67513.690
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.713902 X +83.664
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.316359 X +1.363
Correlation coefficient (r)0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.716304 X +16.194
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073