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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa71.9%
2 Bulgaria71.5%
3 Hungary66.3%
4 Czech Republic65.4%
5 Portugal63.5%
6 Latvia59.3%
7 Slovenia58.3%
8 Philippines56.0%
9 Russian Federation55.6%
10 United States53.6%
11 Cyprus49.7%
11 Spain49.7%
13 Taiwan48.5%
14 Norway47.6%
15 Israel45.5%
16 Finland44.7%
17 Dominican Republic44.6%
18 Canada44.0%
19 Germany43.3%
20 Denmark42.0%
21 France38.9%
22 Belgium38.7%
23 Japan 38.5%
24 Mexico37.9%
25 New Zealand36.9%
26 Republic of Korea34.7%
27 Australia34.6%
28 Sweden31.0%
29 United Kingdom28.5%
30 Ireland28.2%
31 Switzerland21.0%

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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -2.572888 X +7.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -123043.909457 X +99641.376
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -26.935693 X +91.356
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.625
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.391

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.602756 X +1.403
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 5.825768 X +7.853
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022