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Question: Suppose you could decide on your work situation at present. Which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" "A part-time job (10-29 hours per week)" "A job with less than 10 hours a week" "No paid job at all"
Data: % of "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" among women
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary66.3%
2 Czech Republic65.4%
3 Portugal63.5%
4 Latvia59.3%
5 Slovenia58.3%
6 United States53.6%
7 Spain49.7%
8 Norway47.6%
9 Israel45.5%
10 Finland44.7%
11 Canada44.0%
12 Germany43.3%
13 Denmark42.0%
14 France38.9%
15 Belgium38.7%
16 Japan38.5%
17 Mexico37.9%
18 New Zealand36.9%
19 Republic of Korea34.7%
20 Australia34.6%
21 Sweden31.0%
22 United Kingdom28.5%
23 Ireland28.2%
24 Switzerland 21.0%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.371130 X +7.391
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -103336.674272 X +94893.423
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -14.149559 X +86.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.154333 X +1.548
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.787267 X +9.834
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003