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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 Republic of Korea59.0%
2 Canada44.9%
3 Germany42.8%
4 Japan39.1%
5 United States32.8%
6 France 27.7%
7 Australia23.1%

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 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.945156 X +7.338
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -73740.604244 X +78889.884
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.677101 X +80.100
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.531050 X +2.447
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.893
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.797

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 21.230814 X +4.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350