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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 "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan15.1%
2 France 10.9%
3 Germany7.8%
4 United States3.9%
5 Australia3.2%

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 = -6.665178 X +7.179
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.914
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.835

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -323281.406015 X +79667.819
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.933
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.870

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 36.290945 X +78.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.229979 X +1.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -10.473678 X +12.041
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047