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Question: Do you think that women should work outside the home full-time, part-time or not at all under the following circumstances? - After the youngest child starts school.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines38.2%
2 Mexico33.3%
3 Chile32.5%
4 Poland25.7%
5 Brazil23.6%
6 Slovakia20.8%
7 Bulgaria20.1%
8 Japan19.2%
9 Syrian Arab Republic18.7%
10 Austria18.6%
11 Czech Republic17.6%
12 Tajikistan16.5%
13 Spain16.3%
14 Russian Federation15.8%
15 Portugal14.4%
16 Hungary14.2%
17 Latvia13.1%
18 Germany12.3%
19 Slovenia11.1%
20 Cyprus11.0%
21 Ireland10.6%
22 Israel8.2%
23 Finland 8.0%
24 Belgium7.5%
25 France7.0%
25 New Zealand7.0%
27 Norway6.9%
27 United States6.9%
29 Australia6.7%
30 Uruguay6.5%
31 Denmark2.9%
32 Netherlands2.6%
33 Switzerland2.2%

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 data32
Regression equation
Y = -4.653948 X +7.273
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.632
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.399

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -201466.259183 X +67312.506
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.684
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.468

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -24.148688 X +82.486
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.077709 X +1.573
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -25.527906 X +15.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169