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Question: Whether the job requires supervising others ? how important do you think that ought to be in deciding pay?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia96.0%
2 New Zealand95.8%
3 United States95.4%
4 Slovenia93.1%
5 Switzerland92.6%
6 Chile92.2%
7 France91.9%
8 Canada91.4%
9 Latvia91.0%
10 Portugal90.3%
11 Norway89.7%
12 Poland89.6%
13 Hungary89.2%
14 Spain89.0%
15 Israel88.2%
16 Slovakia87.6%
17 Czech Republic87.2%
18 Austria86.5%
19 Germany84.6%
20 Japan 71.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.116064 X +3.932
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 80474.654793 X -29135.052
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9.910417 X +89.335
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.662614 X +0.997
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.505847 X +12.511
Correlation coefficient (r)0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000