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Question: Do you agree that a husband's job is to earn money; a wife's job is to look after the home and family?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany41.8%
2 Japan35.9%
3 Italy34.3%
4 Australia25.5%
5 United States22.2%
6 United Kingdom20.2%
7 France 19.2%
8 Canada15.2%
9 Sweden7.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.409638 X +7.315
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.693
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.480

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -52867.224624 X +63811.790
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.978173 X +81.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.826323 X +1.757
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -10.233023 X +12.508
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127