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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal82.7%
2 Poland81.4%
3 Spain80.2%
4 Hungary79.8%
5 Germany79.6%
6 Slovenia78.8%
7 Japan 78.6%
8 Israel77.2%
9 New Zealand76.9%
10 Norway76.5%
11 Netherlands75.9%
12 Denmark75.5%
13 Russian Federation74.3%
14 Bulgaria73.9%
15 United States71.1%
16 Italy70.9%
17 Sweden70.0%
18 United Kingdom69.7%
19 Canada69.4%
20 Czech Republic68.6%
21 Philippines66.3%
22 Cyprus64.2%
23 France63.3%
24 Switzerland56.0%
25 Bangladesh53.3%

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.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.234603 X +4.164
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -14200.494800 X +51614.247
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8.579036 X +73.151
Correlation coefficient (r)0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.141686 X +2.485
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 13.599509 X -0.854
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061