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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:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada52.3%
2 Sweden48.3%
3 United States46.2%
4 Norway44.1%
5 Ireland42.4%
5 United Kingdom42.4%
7 Japan 40.4%
8 Israel38.0%
9 Spain36.3%
10 Australia35.7%
11 Netherlands34.6%
12 New Zealand32.8%
13 Czech Republic32.2%
14 Germany28.6%
15 Slovenia24.6%
16 Poland23.1%
17 Italy17.9%
18 Austria17.7%
19 Hungary11.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 19 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.724174 X +6.204
Correlation coefficient (r)0.480
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.230

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 127623.834511 X +6771.595
Correlation coefficient (r)0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 10.975973 X +77.225
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.514038 X +1.442
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 3.101565 X +8.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015