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Question: How important do you personally think helping other people 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 Portugal93.1%
2 United States90.5%
3 Ireland90.1%
4 Mexico89.8%
5 Israel88.8%
6 Slovenia84.4%
7 Spain83.3%
8 Republic of Korea83.1%
9 Switzerland82.5%
10 Canada80.8%
11 Australia80.3%
12 New Zealand79.7%
13 Germany75.4%
14 Hungary74.5%
15 United Kingdom72.2%
16 Denmark72.1%
17 Belgium70.9%
18 Japan 68.2%
19 Latvia68.0%
20 Sweden67.1%
21 Czech Republic66.4%
22 Norway65.0%
23 Finland64.2%
24 France61.2%

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 = -1.266499 X +7.826
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1209.544494 X +49962.789
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.741254 X +83.052
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.600517 X +1.128
Correlation coefficient (r)0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -10.977459 X +21.915
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042