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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 "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 15.1%
2 France10.9%
3 Germany7.8%
4 United States3.9%
5 Australia3.2%

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 = -8.343873 X +7.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.922
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.850

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -241255.266469 X +73284.281
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.954
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.910

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 33.581605 X +78.893
Correlation coefficient (r)0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.236555 X +1.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 7.691683 X +13.371
Correlation coefficient (r)0.227
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052