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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 women
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States53.6%
2 Canada44.0%
3 Germany43.3%
4 France 38.9%
5 Japan38.5%
9 United Kingdom28.5%

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 = 0.646073 X +6.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 139290.370356 X -4492.606
Correlation coefficient (r)0.726
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.527

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -20.346032 X +89.652
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.189886 X +1.435
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 25.819962 X -0.306
Correlation coefficient (r)0.775
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.601