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Question: How important do you personally think high income 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 Latvia95.4%
2 Spain95.2%
3 Israel94.3%
4 Hungary92.9%
5 Republic of Korea92.6%
6 Portugal92.0%
7 Mexico91.9%
8 Slovenia91.4%
9 Czech Republic84.7%
10 France82.6%
11 Canada82.3%
12 Finland81.8%
13 Germany81.7%
14 Belgium79.6%
15 United States79.4%
16 Ireland78.4%
17 Japan 78.1%
18 Sweden74.3%
19 United Kingdom73.4%
20 Australia71.3%
21 Norway69.8%
22 New Zealand69.5%
23 Denmark59.5%
24 Switzerland58.8%

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 = -3.501197 X +9.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.676
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.457

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -162994.508393 X +181523.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -10.763691 X +89.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.339237 X +1.315
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 7.088502 X +7.684
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022