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Question: In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be the person's family responsibilities?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada83.6%
2 Italy44.2%
3 Japan38.4%
4 United Kingdom29.5%
5 United States28.9%
6 Germany24.9%
8 France 16.3%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.260377 X +6.485
Correlation coefficient (r)0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5009.712082 X +52636.402
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.962535 X +81.149
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.595989 X +1.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.107185 X +9.501
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000