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Question: How often do you feel that the demands of your job interfere with your family life?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Hardly ever" "Never"
Data: % of "Always" "Often"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden22.8%
2 Australia22.6%
3 France21.7%
4 United Kingdom21.3%
5 Germany21.1%
6 Canada18.5%
7 United States15.0%
8 Japan 9.9%
9 Republic of Korea8.0%

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 = 7.759890 X +5.411
Correlation coefficient (r)0.880
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.774

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 105760.056891 X +32410.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.957279 X +83.267
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.974206 X +0.776
Correlation coefficient (r)0.794
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.630

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -76.152745 X +28.392
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.749
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.561