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Question: Do you think that women should work outside the home full-time, part-time or not at all under the following circumstances? - After the youngest child starts school.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan19.2%
2 Germany12.3%
3 France 7.0%
4 United States6.9%
5 Australia6.7%

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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.641850 X +7.222
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.848
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.719

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -224190.235179 X +76584.023
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.710
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.504

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 28.010595 X +78.521
Correlation coefficient (r)0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -3.409083 X +1.969
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.940
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.884

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.457570 X +11.440
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003