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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? - When there is a child under school age.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home"
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia65.3%
2 Japan 63.3%
3 United Kingdom62.7%
4 United States54.7%
5 Germany52.6%
6 Canada42.2%
7 Italy39.1%
8 Sweden29.5%

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 = -1.022292 X +7.402
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 3185.552217 X +50579.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.677535 X +81.316
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.082922 X +1.451
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.846467 X +11.218
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005