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Question: Do you think that women should work outside the home full-time, part-time or not at all under the following circumstances? - When there is a child under school age.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand64.3%
2 Australia58.0%
3 Poland57.4%
4 United States57.3%
5 Slovakia53.2%
6 Japan 53.1%
7 Philippines51.3%
8 Austria48.8%
9 Syrian Arab Republic47.1%
10 Hungary46.1%
11 Uruguay45.4%
12 Chile42.8%
13 Latvia41.5%
14 Mexico41.1%
15 Portugal40.7%
16 Tajikistan40.6%
17 Brazil40.4%
18 Finland40.2%
19 Germany39.9%
20 France39.8%
21 Bulgaria39.1%
21 Ireland39.1%
23 Russian Federation37.4%
24 Spain37.0%
25 Czech Republic36.7%
26 Norway31.4%
27 Slovenia29.6%
28 Belgium29.1%
29 Netherlands28.6%
30 Denmark23.3%
31 Switzerland19.3%
32 Cyprus17.6%
33 Israel13.6%

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 data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.164921 X +7.052
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -57341.059815 X +62397.068
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -11.331126 X +82.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.352420 X +1.873
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 6.005096 X +7.181
Correlation coefficient (r)0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027