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Question: How much do you agree or disagree that it applies to your job? - "My income is high"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark41.7%
2 Slovenia32.8%
3 Israel32.6%
4 Canada29.5%
5 Italy25.1%
6 Netherlands24.8%
7 United States24.5%
8 Japan 23.1%
9 Germany23.0%
10 Switzerland21.0%
11 New Zealand17.4%
11 Norway17.4%
13 Sweden17.0%
14 United Kingdom16.6%
15 Spain16.3%
16 France14.8%
17 Portugal14.7%
18 Czech Republic11.0%
19 Hungary9.1%
20 Poland8.6%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = 2.932548 X +6.248
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 94409.240423 X +27849.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 10.818568 X +78.753
Correlation coefficient (r)0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.202838 X +1.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.843986 X +12.739
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005