text: **In 2005**, just after the accession of 10 new EU Member States,**the average EU level was slightly**
  **different, four percentage points lower at 82%**249 (EWCS, 2005). In that year, the six EU Member 
  States with the highest rates of satisfaction were Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands 
  and Luxembourg (all around 90%). The**lowest degree of satisfaction**was reported by the workers of 
  Romania (not an EU member at that time), Greece, Bulgaria (not an EU member at that time), Lithuania, 
  Latvia and Slovenia,**significantly lower than today**, between 58% and 72%. 
  
  The most visible change is that in 2005 the lowest degree of satisfaction was exclusively reported in 
  south-eastern European countries and the Baltics.**In 2015, three southern and south-western EU**
  **Member States**, that is, France, Italy and Spain,**were part of the six countries with the lowest**
  satisfaction rate, while the states from south-eastern Europe and the Baltic states showed low but 
  increased satisfaction rates. 
  
  In 2015, the percentage of workers who responded to be ‘unsatisfied’ or ‘very unsatisfied’ is 
  characterised by the following patterns:250 
  
  • Sectoral: the highest rates of dissatisfaction were reported in the three sectors agriculture, 
  hotels and restaurants, and manufacturing. 
  
  • Level of education: 51% of workers with third-level degree (ISCED 5 or 6) 251 report being ‘very 
  satisfied’ compared to an average of 25% for the whole sample. 
  
  • Less differences can be seen for the form of work, that is, those with a permanent contract and 
  those with ‘Other arrangements’. 