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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Being a housewife is just as fulfilling as working for pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan69.3%
2 United States62.7%
3 Australia47.6%
4 United Kingdom47.4%
5 Germany36.4%
6 France 34.6%
7 Sweden31.4%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.817405 X +7.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5670.994610 X +49869.392
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.694837 X +83.324
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.753074 X +1.969
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 8.428392 X +6.772
Correlation coefficient (r)0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214