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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark56.0%
2 Norway55.5%
3 Sweden54.1%
4 Ireland51.9%
5 Cyprus48.7%
6 Finland47.8%
7 Japan 45.9%
8 United Kingdom42.9%
9 France41.5%
10 Australia38.8%
11 Germany38.1%
12 Taiwan37.7%
13 Belgium37.1%
14 Spain36.8%
14 United States36.8%
16 Czech Republic36.2%
17 Netherlands35.4%
18 New Zealand34.7%
19 Slovenia33.8%
20 Israel31.9%
21 Poland31.8%
22 Slovakia31.6%
23 Philippines29.7%
24 Switzerland28.4%
25 Latvia20.7%
26 Austria20.6%
27 Russian Federation19.7%
28 Hungary17.8%
29 Mexico17.3%
30 Bulgaria17.1%
31 Portugal14.0%
32 Chile10.2%
33 Brazil9.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. 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 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.354772 X +5.857
Correlation coefficient (r)0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 128777.919655 X -1676.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 21.491554 X +71.765
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.073335 X +1.678
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.267261 X +9.594
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000