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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 69.0%
2 United States56.2%
3 Australia47.8%
4 United Kingdom44.6%
5 Canada43.6%
6 Germany38.9%
7 Sweden29.7%
8 Italy26.4%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.470340 X +7.534
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 8738.191061 X +48319.195
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.580885 X +81.404
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.018785 X +1.485
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 13.904873 X +5.971
Correlation coefficient (r)0.566
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.320