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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 women
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 17.6%
2 Germany17.2%
3 United Kingdom14.6%
4 United States11.0%
5 Australia9.6%
6 Canada6.9%
7 Republic of Korea6.4%
8 Sweden6.2%
9 France0.5%

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 = -0.824909 X +6.881
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5895.902462 X +51907.368
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.287985 X +82.073
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.645497 X +1.551
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -28.636469 X +17.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081