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Question: Suppose you could decide on your work situation at present. Which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" "A part-time job (10-29 hours per week)" "A job with less than 10 hours a week" "No paid job at all"
Data: % of "No paid job at all" among men
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany13.0%
2 United Kingdom10.8%
3 Japan 7.5%
4 United States7.3%
5 Australia6.2%
6 Canada5.8%
7 Sweden4.3%
8 Republic of Korea2.5%
9 France1.3%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.621140 X +6.562
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 51954.667576 X +47929.179
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -18.657270 X +83.061
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.925395 X +1.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -82.433435 X +20.154
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288