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Question: Are you in favour of or against reducing the working week to create more jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy63.3%
2 France57.6%
3 Japan 53.3%
4 Germany52.4%
5 Canada46.2%
6 United States39.3%
7 Australia29.6%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.240029 X +7.864
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -95223.046801 X +97239.593
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.888
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.789

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.610741 X +79.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.519339 X +1.762
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.845967 X +18.425
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195