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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic67.2%
2 Viet Nam65.3%
3 Chile63.3%
4 Spain59.6%
5 Croatia59.2%
6 Republic of Korea59.0%
7 Slovenia54.1%
8 Uzbekistan52.2%
9 Switzerland52.0%
10 Israel50.2%
11 Poland49.0%
12 Portugal48.4%
13 South Africa47.0%
14 Canada44.9%
15 Philippines44.5%
16 Germany42.8%
16 Tajikistan42.8%
18 Finland40.2%
19 Japan 39.1%
20 Hungary39.0%
21 Latvia38.8%
22 Denmark36.8%
23 Uruguay35.9%
24 Syrian Arab Republic34.6%
25 United States32.8%
26 Ireland31.8%
27 Czech Republic30.5%
28 Netherlands30.3%
29 Russian Federation30.0%
30 Norway28.9%
31 France27.7%
32 New Zealand25.9%
33 Australia23.1%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.994816 X +7.385
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -109792.907468 X +85296.520
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -6.256285 X +80.599
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.217814 X +1.713
Correlation coefficient (r)0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -6.614007 X +13.420
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025