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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - A job is all right, but what most women really want is a home and children.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary70.5%
2 Poland65.2%
3 Slovenia64.5%
4 Czech Republic59.7%
5 Japan 51.4%
6 Ireland50.9%
7 Spain49.9%
8 Italy46.4%
9 Austria44.1%
10 Israel43.0%
11 Australia35.0%
12 Sweden34.5%
13 United States33.0%
14 Norway31.5%
15 Netherlands31.0%
16 Germany30.2%
17 United Kingdom27.5%
18 New Zealand23.7%
19 Canada17.3%

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 = -1.538085 X +7.448
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.578
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.334

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -84103.157159 X +86188.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -9.251329 X +84.914
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -0.105089 X +1.663
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.370160 X +9.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005