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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Being a housewife is just as fulfilling as working for pay.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan80.9%
2 Philippines70.8%
3 Japan69.3%
4 Brazil63.5%
5 United States62.7%
6 Chile55.2%
7 Hungary53.1%
8 Poland53.0%
8 Switzerland53.0%
10 Belgium52.9%
11 Mexico52.3%
12 Bulgaria51.7%
13 Ireland50.0%
14 Australia47.6%
15 Portugal47.4%
15 United Kingdom47.4%
17 New Zealand45.2%
18 Slovakia42.4%
19 Spain42.0%
20 Slovenia41.5%
21 Russian Federation41.3%
22 Finland 40.9%
23 Denmark40.4%
24 Austria38.5%
25 Germany36.4%
26 Latvia35.3%
27 France34.6%
28 Czech Republic34.2%
29 Sweden31.4%
30 Netherlands26.3%
31 Norway24.6%
32 Israel23.8%
33 Cyprus20.8%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.756920 X +7.484
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -47322.514798 X +62752.341
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -9.854651 X +84.005
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.033591 X +1.612
Correlation coefficient (r)0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.660555 X +12.886
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002