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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%

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 data4
Regression equation
Y = -4.663062 X +7.058
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.855
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.731

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -244838.518519 X +81330.672
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.701
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.491

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 33.644444 X +77.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -3.891358 X +1.987
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.967
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.935

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -2.574321 X +11.460
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003