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Question: Are you in favour of or against reducing the working week to create more jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy63.3%
2 France 57.6%
3 Japan53.3%
4 Germany52.4%
5 Canada46.2%
6 United States39.3%
7 Australia29.6%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.119268 X +7.662
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.715
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.511

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -117358.453933 X +108036.120
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.847
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.717

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.195422 X +78.776
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.828248 X +1.940
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -18.966461 X +19.343
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.674
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.454