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Question: Do you agree that a husband's job is to earn money; a wife's job is to look after the home and family?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland62.0%
2 Latvia58.5%
3 Slovakia55.0%
4 Hungary50.2%
5 Chile44.9%
6 Czech Republic42.4%
7 Germany41.8%
8 Portugal41.5%
9 Austria39.1%
10 Japan35.9%
11 Italy34.3%
12 Ireland32.9%
13 Slovenia30.0%
14 Switzerland26.8%
15 Australia25.5%
16 New Zealand25.3%
17 Israel24.8%
17 Spain24.8%
19 United States22.2%
20 United Kingdom20.2%
21 France19.2%
22 Denmark18.6%
23 Netherlands15.6%
24 Canada15.2%
25 Norway12.9%
26 Sweden 7.8%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -2.167207 X +7.428
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.709
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.503

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -110226.148738 X +82929.544
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -15.923043 X +85.610
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.416748 X +1.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.060655 X +9.023
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011