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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel63.4%
2 Italy63.3%
3 Switzerland61.3%
4 Slovenia58.4%
5 France57.6%
6 Cyprus56.7%
7 Philippines 56.4%
8 Syrian Arab Republic56.1%
9 Spain53.5%
10 Japan53.3%
11 Ireland53.2%
12 Germany52.4%
13 Canada46.2%
14 Norway45.4%
15 Bulgaria42.8%
16 Poland42.3%
17 United States39.3%
18 Hungary38.1%
19 Australia29.6%
20 Latvia29.1%
21 Uruguay27.4%
22 Russian Federation27.2%
23 New Zealand24.0%
24 Czech Republic23.1%

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 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.607806 X +6.321
Correlation coefficient (r)0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 49887.957250 X +18880.292
Correlation coefficient (r)0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 9.835905 X +74.796
Correlation coefficient (r)0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.606026 X +1.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -23.904738 X +23.132
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285