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Question: Do you agree that a husband's job is to earn money; a wife's job is to look after the home and family?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines77.7%
2 Russian Federation70.4%
3 Bulgaria66.1%
4 Poland62.0%
5 Latvia58.5%
6 Slovakia55.0%
7 Hungary50.2%
8 Chile44.9%
9 Czech Republic42.4%
10 Germany41.8%
11 Portugal41.5%
12 Austria39.1%
13 Japan 35.9%
14 Italy34.3%
15 Ireland32.9%
16 Slovenia30.0%
17 Switzerland26.8%
18 Australia25.5%
19 New Zealand25.3%
20 Israel24.8%
20 Spain24.8%
22 United States22.2%
23 United Kingdom20.2%
24 France19.2%
25 Denmark18.6%
26 Cyprus16.9%
27 Netherlands15.6%
28 Canada15.2%
29 Norway12.9%
30 Sweden7.8%

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 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.059888 X +7.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.727
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.529

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -96622.588130 X +77715.237
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.673
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.453

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -20.168189 X +86.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.850
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.722

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.263887 X +1.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.482352 X +8.640
Correlation coefficient (r)0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014