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Question: Suppose you could decide on your work situation at present. Which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" "A part-time job (10-29 hours per week)" "A job with less than 10 hours a week" "No paid job at all"
Data: % of "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" among men
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 79.0%
2 United States76.3%
3 Germany75.4%
4 Japan75.0%
6 Canada63.0%
7 United Kingdom62.5%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.816713 X +7.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 18358.355410 X +39608.629
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -4.638751 X +84.617
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.072816 X +0.742
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 17.212248 X -2.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203