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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" (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 Australia58.0%
2 United States57.3%
3 Japan 53.1%
4 Germany39.9%
5 France39.8%

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 = 0.174525 X +6.693
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 80302.214142 X +13703.641
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.487448 X +82.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.705359 X +1.934
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 7.997520 X +10.032
Correlation coefficient (r)0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188