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Question: In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be the person's education and formal qualifications?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia69.0%
2 Poland66.8%
3 Israel66.7%
4 Spain62.3%
5 Czech Republic60.0%
6 United States59.4%
7 Hungary56.5%
8 Denmark54.0%
9 Italy52.3%
10 Norway47.2%
11 Canada45.1%
12 Sweden43.4%
13 Switzerland40.6%
14 Portugal39.5%
15 New Zealand38.6%
16 Netherlands37.2%
17 France36.3%
18 United Kingdom35.5%
19 Germany34.5%
20 Japan 21.3%

Note
Can't choose 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 = -0.179423 X +6.952
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -44377.810957 X +69161.120
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9.203014 X +85.476
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.517
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.267

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.744307 X +1.228
Correlation coefficient (r)0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.688894 X +12.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004