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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - In order to avoid unemployment I would be willing to accept temporary employment.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland81.4%
2 Switzerland80.0%
3 United States78.0%
4 Australia72.7%
5 Slovenia72.4%
6 Germany72.2%
7 New Zealand71.5%
8 Norway68.2%
9 Belgium67.1%
10 Czech Republic65.3%
11 Israel64.7%
11 Sweden64.7%
13 Canada64.5%
14 Portugal63.7%
15 United Kingdom61.9%
16 Denmark61.4%
17 France58.0%
18 Finland52.8%
19 Mexico48.4%
20 Republic of Korea46.4%
20 Spain46.4%
22 Hungary44.4%
23 Japan 34.0%
24 Latvia19.5%

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 = 2.244060 X +5.484
Correlation coefficient (r)0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 103010.332026 X -13617.825
Correlation coefficient (r)0.654
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.428

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.494817 X +77.596
Correlation coefficient (r)0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.433764 X +1.327
Correlation coefficient (r)0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -8.807834 X +18.802
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066