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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? - After the youngest child starts school.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home"
Data: % of "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada48.3%
2 Israel38.2%
3 United States37.8%
4 Slovenia34.4%
5 Spain32.6%
6 Poland29.8%
7 Netherlands28.6%
8 Bulgaria26.2%
9 Ireland26.1%
10 Sweden25.3%
11 Norway25.2%
12 Czech Republic22.6%
13 Philippines20.7%
14 Hungary19.4%
15 United Kingdom18.4%
16 Japan 17.1%
17 Italy17.0%
18 Australia16.1%
19 New Zealand12.7%
20 Germany12.2%
21 Russian Federation9.3%
22 Austria9.2%

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 = 1.313374 X +6.338
Correlation coefficient (r)0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 50235.734504 X +32963.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 6.767350 X +77.865
Correlation coefficient (r)0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.710815 X +1.491
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.685416 X +11.115
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020