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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 "No paid job at all" among women
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom16.7%
2 United States12.2%
3 Japan10.7%
4 Canada7.8%
5 Germany6.7%
6 Italy4.0%
8 France 1.5%

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.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.789127 X +6.517
Correlation coefficient (r)0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 92652.037364 X +42845.484
Correlation coefficient (r)0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -9.052950 X +82.285
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.005399 X +1.474
Correlation coefficient (r)0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 16.961412 X +8.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067