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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 69.3%
2 United States62.7%
3 Australia47.6%
4 United Kingdom47.4%
5 Germany36.4%
6 France34.6%
7 Sweden31.4%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.925602 X +7.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.646
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.417

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2494.640110 X +54742.478
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.992787 X +82.110
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.657270 X +1.901
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5.464262 X +10.657
Correlation coefficient (r)0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084