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Question: Are you in favour of or against reducing the working week to create more jobs?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile63.3%
2 Spain59.6%
3 Republic of Korea59.0%
4 Slovenia54.1%
5 Switzerland52.0%
6 Israel50.2%
7 Poland49.0%
8 Portugal48.4%
9 Canada44.9%
10 Germany42.8%
11 Finland40.2%
12 Japan39.1%
13 Hungary39.0%
14 Latvia 38.8%
15 Denmark36.8%
16 United States32.8%
17 Ireland31.8%
18 Czech Republic30.5%
19 Netherlands30.3%
20 Norway28.9%
21 France27.7%
22 New Zealand25.9%
23 Australia23.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.171660 X +7.713
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -88170.744768 X +84164.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.349929 X +80.795
Correlation coefficient (r)0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.537394 X +1.781
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 4.923279 X +11.388
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014