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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"
Data: % of "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia78.2%
2 Portugal72.9%
3 Denmark71.6%
4 Norway66.4%
5 China64.5%
6 Finland 62.7%
7 South Africa60.7%
8 Croatia59.6%
9 Slovakia58.0%
10 Iceland57.6%
11 United States54.9%
12 Poland54.7%
13 Sweden54.1%
14 Spain53.6%
15 Canada51.9%
16 Israel51.5%
17 France51.3%
18 Bulgaria47.0%
19 Belgium46.1%
20 Latvia45.7%
21 Lithuania42.8%
22 Hungary41.4%
23 Czech Republic40.8%
24 Taiwan38.4%
25 Ireland36.8%
26 Russian Federation36.7%
27 Republic of Korea32.2%
28 United Kingdom30.9%
29 Germany30.4%
30 Philippines29.0%
31 Australia25.8%
32 Austria24.5%
33 India23.5%
34 Netherlands20.7%
34 Venezuela20.7%
36 Turkiye20.6%
37 Chile20.4%
38 Argentina17.8%
39 Japan17.1%
40 Mexico12.9%
41 Switzerland11.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 1.168973 X +5.943
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 16447.602668 X +29830.710
Correlation coefficient (r)0.114
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 1.800655 X +77.910
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.323767 X +1.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 7.656318 X +9.725
Correlation coefficient (r)0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052