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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - A pre-school child is likely to suffer if his or her mother works.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark56.0%
2 Norway55.5%
3 Sweden54.1%
4 Ireland51.9%
5 Finland47.8%
6 Japan45.9%
7 United Kingdom42.9%
8 France41.5%
9 Australia38.8%
10 Germany38.1%
11 Belgium37.1%
12 Spain36.8%
12 United States36.8%
14 Czech Republic36.2%
15 Netherlands35.4%
16 New Zealand34.7%
17 Slovenia33.8%
18 Israel31.9%
19 Poland31.8%
20 Slovakia31.6%
21 Switzerland28.4%
22 Latvia20.7%
23 Austria 20.6%
24 Hungary17.8%
25 Mexico17.3%
26 Portugal14.0%
27 Chile10.2%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 2.185508 X +6.021
Correlation coefficient (r)0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 128739.578551 X +1749.546
Correlation coefficient (r)0.619
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.383

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 15.839651 X +74.541
Correlation coefficient (r)0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.055211 X +1.615
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 2.597876 X +9.075
Correlation coefficient (r)0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013