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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? - When there is a child under school age.
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 Australia58.0%
2 United States57.3%
3 Japan53.1%
4 Germany39.9%
5 France 39.8%

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 = 0.501282 X +6.385
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 107601.454423 X -168.442
Correlation coefficient (r)0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.051952 X +83.947
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.544626 X +1.884
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 22.020901 X +0.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.836
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.699