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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? - After the youngest child starts school.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 19.2%
2 Germany12.3%
3 France7.0%
4 United States6.9%
5 Australia6.7%

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 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -6.600601 X +7.468
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.800
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.640

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -162397.054358 X +70471.373
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.704
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.496

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 27.124878 X +78.814
Correlation coefficient (r)0.531
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.282

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.756183 X +1.871
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.845
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.714

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 5.980700 X +13.377
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038