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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"
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 68.7%
2 Poland59.0%
3 Turkiye56.5%
4 Philippines54.2%
5 Austria52.8%
6 India49.7%
7 Republic of Korea45.3%
8 Australia44.3%
9 Argentina43.3%
10 Latvia43.0%
11 China41.5%
11 United Kingdom41.5%
13 Czech Republic40.0%
13 Mexico40.0%
15 Bulgaria36.5%
15 Slovakia36.5%
17 Canada34.8%
18 Hungary34.6%
19 Taiwan34.0%
20 United States33.9%
21 Russian Federation33.1%
22 Chile32.9%
23 South Africa32.7%
24 Venezuela32.1%
25 Lithuania31.4%
26 Ireland31.1%
27 Netherlands29.0%
28 France26.3%
29 Spain26.2%
30 Switzerland24.6%
31 Belgium24.3%
32 Croatia23.4%
33 Germany19.7%
34 Portugal19.1%
35 Slovenia18.5%
36 Finland16.7%
37 Norway12.5%
38 Sweden11.9%
39 Israel9.1%
40 Iceland7.3%
41 Denmark5.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -2.852454 X +7.420
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -89158.952580 X +67097.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -12.688740 X +82.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.306217 X +1.774
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.082689 X +10.844
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001