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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 "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark38.1%
2 South Africa34.9%
3 Iceland33.6%
4 Slovenia33.2%
5 Norway32.6%
6 Finland32.3%
7 Croatia31.6%
8 Sweden25.4%
9 China25.0%
10 Portugal24.4%
11 Bulgaria23.4%
12 Slovakia21.6%
13 Taiwan20.0%
14 Belgium19.7%
15 Israel18.1%
16 United States17.3%
17 Canada17.2%
18 Hungary16.8%
19 Czech Republic15.6%
20 Germany14.3%
21 Spain13.9%
22 France13.7%
23 India13.4%
24 Poland13.2%
25 Ireland12.7%
26 Russian Federation12.5%
27 Lithuania11.9%
28 Philippines11.2%
29 Latvia10.3%
30 Republic of Korea9.7%
31 Turkiye9.2%
32 Mexico8.2%
33 Chile6.5%
34 United Kingdom6.3%
35 Venezuela6.2%
36 Japan 6.1%
36 Netherlands6.1%
38 Argentina4.0%
39 Switzerland3.7%
40 Australia3.4%
41 Austria2.0%

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 = 1.370018 X +6.249
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 35546.152452 X +31683.195
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.341653 X +77.951
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.198605 X +1.640
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 9.243452 X +8.962
Correlation coefficient (r)0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035