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Question: Do you think that women should work outside the home full-time, part-time or not at all under the following circumstances? - After the youngest child starts school.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico33.3%
2 Chile32.5%
3 Poland25.7%
4 Slovakia20.8%
5 Japan19.2%
6 Austria18.6%
7 Czech Republic17.6%
8 Spain16.3%
9 Portugal14.4%
10 Hungary14.2%
11 Latvia13.1%
12 Germany12.3%
13 Slovenia11.1%
14 Ireland10.6%
15 Israel8.2%
16 Finland8.0%
17 Belgium7.5%
18 France7.0%
18 New Zealand7.0%
20 Norway6.9%
20 United States6.9%
22 Australia6.7%
23 Denmark2.9%
24 Netherlands2.6%
25 Switzerland 2.2%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.216755 X +7.186
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -221054.151081 X +75411.093
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.691
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.477

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -25.955657 X +83.332
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.710713 X +1.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.964365 X +11.313
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085