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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico60.1%
2 United States49.6%
3 Chile48.3%
4 Israel42.8%
5 Spain38.8%
6 Iceland32.3%
7 Austria29.5%
8 Latvia28.8%
9 Poland28.4%
10 United Kingdom26.5%
11 France25.4%
12 Hungary23.9%
13 Lithuania23.6%
14 Slovenia23.0%
15 Australia22.2%
16 New Zealand21.1%
17 Belgium20.7%
18 Slovakia20.5%
19 Estonia19.9%
20 Switzerland16.3%
21 Czech Republic15.4%
22 Germany14.2%
23 Sweden11.0%
24 Finland9.1%
25 Denmark8.3%
26 Norway7.6%
27 Japan 5.3%

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 = -1.366578 X +7.175
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.340
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -59973.045541 X +59186.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -8.278963 X +82.266
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.957776 X +1.380
Correlation coefficient (r)0.428
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.183

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -12.174466 X +16.407
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130