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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 men
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 79.0%
2 United States76.3%
3 Germany75.4%
4 Japan75.0%
5 Australia68.4%
6 Canada63.0%
7 United Kingdom62.5%
8 Sweden60.8%
9 Republic of Korea54.6%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.391272 X +6.959
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 35771.108733 X +26136.520
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.208355 X +88.887
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.115533 X +0.059
Correlation coefficient (r)0.594
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.353

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -20.664699 X +25.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178