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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - A pre-school child is likely to suffer if his or her mother works.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada52.3%
2 Sweden48.3%
3 United States46.2%
4 Norway44.1%
5 Ireland42.4%
5 United Kingdom42.4%
7 Japan 40.4%
8 Israel38.0%
9 Spain36.3%
10 Australia35.7%
11 Netherlands34.6%
12 New Zealand32.8%
13 Czech Republic32.2%
14 Philippines29.2%
15 Germany28.6%
16 Slovenia24.6%
17 Poland23.1%
18 Italy17.9%
19 Austria17.7%
20 Russian Federation16.0%
21 Bulgaria15.8%
22 Hungary11.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 2.763989 X +5.760
Correlation coefficient (r)0.615
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.378

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 145921.418492 X -2091.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 21.819685 X +72.445
Correlation coefficient (r)0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.378048 X +1.540
Correlation coefficient (r)0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -1.702896 X +10.302
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002