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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? - I would turn down another job that offered quite a bit more pay in order to stay with this organization.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal47.4%
2 Japan 41.4%
3 Israel38.1%
4 Switzerland29.7%
5 Denmark29.4%
6 Italy28.1%
7 Spain26.6%
8 Germany26.0%
9 Czech Republic25.7%
10 Slovenia23.6%
11 Netherlands22.4%
12 Norway21.2%
13 Poland21.1%
13 United States21.1%
15 New Zealand19.9%
16 United Kingdom19.8%
17 Sweden18.0%
18 France16.6%
19 Canada15.8%
20 Hungary15.1%

Note
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 = -1.410281 X +7.222
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -23688.836967 X +53727.320
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 10.157925 X +78.455
Correlation coefficient (r)0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.545045 X +1.449
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9.749756 X +14.612
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056