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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico97.3%
2 Israel95.5%
3 Portugal92.2%
4 Republic of Korea91.1%
5 Spain88.6%
6 United States87.1%
7 Ireland86.2%
8 New Zealand83.2%
9 Australia83.0%
10 Canada82.7%
11 Belgium79.8%
12 Slovenia78.5%
13 United Kingdom77.9%
14 France75.5%
15 Germany73.8%
16 Hungary67.5%
17 Latvia66.2%
18 Switzerland63.9%
19 Czech Republic56.1%
20 Norway51.6%
21 Sweden49.1%
22 Finland46.0%
23 Denmark40.9%
24 Japan 26.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.844770 X +7.461
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -24305.285169 X +66655.008
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.935506 X +83.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.408657 X +1.294
Correlation coefficient (r)0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -4.282033 X +16.551
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025