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Question: Are you in favour of or against reducing the working week to create more jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel63.4%
2 Italy63.3%
3 Switzerland61.3%
4 Slovenia58.4%
5 France57.6%
6 Cyprus56.7%
7 Philippines56.4%
8 Syrian Arab Republic56.1%
9 Spain53.5%
10 Japan 53.3%
11 Ireland53.2%
12 Germany52.4%
13 Canada46.2%
14 Norway45.4%
15 Bulgaria42.8%
16 Poland42.3%
17 United States39.3%
18 Hungary38.1%
19 Australia29.6%
20 Latvia29.1%
21 Uruguay27.4%
22 Russian Federation27.2%
23 New Zealand24.0%
24 Czech Republic23.1%

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 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.228426 X +6.445
Correlation coefficient (r)0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 44186.591845 X +22908.173
Correlation coefficient (r)0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 13.568009 X +72.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.846521 X +1.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.238
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -23.219154 X +20.447
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393