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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Being a housewife is just as fulfilling as working for pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 69.0%
2 Ireland61.2%
3 Poland60.5%
4 Hungary56.7%
5 United States56.2%
6 Austria50.5%
7 Spain49.3%
8 Australia47.8%
9 New Zealand46.2%
10 Slovenia44.8%
11 United Kingdom44.6%
12 Canada43.6%
13 Germany38.9%
14 Netherlands38.4%
15 Norway32.2%
16 Sweden29.7%
17 Italy26.4%
18 Czech Republic26.0%
19 Israel21.7%

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 = -1.754557 X +7.572
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -10762.896216 X +55144.503
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -5.170216 X +83.270
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -1.327358 X +2.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.465
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.216

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 9.191268 X +5.599
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184