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Question: Suppose you could decide on your work situation at present. Which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" "A part-time job (10-29 hours per week)" "A job with less than 10 hours a week" "No paid job at all"
Data: % of "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" among women
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia67.3%
2 Portugal63.9%
3 Hungary62.9%
4 Poland60.8%
5 Bulgaria60.1%
6 Philippines54.5%
6 Spain54.5%
8 Russian Federation54.3%
9 Czech Republic51.6%
10 United States46.5%
11 New Zealand45.2%
12 Canada44.7%
13 Israel44.5%
14 Japan 42.6%
15 Denmark42.4%
16 Germany39.1%
17 Cyprus36.7%
18 Sweden35.9%
19 Norway34.7%
20 France34.5%
21 United Kingdom30.0%
22 Bangladesh29.9%
23 Italy28.2%
24 Netherlands27.0%
25 Switzerland15.7%

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 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.100107 X +6.999
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -106211.174357 X +88361.350
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -15.402883 X +86.199
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.069682 X +1.626
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 6.720548 X +6.038
Correlation coefficient (r)0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046