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Question: In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be the person's family responsibilities?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 91.8%
2 Canada83.6%
3 Spain59.1%
4 Netherlands50.9%
5 Israel47.9%
6 Italy44.2%
7 Cyprus42.9%
8 Hungary40.3%
9 Portugal38.8%
10 Japan38.4%
11 Poland38.0%
12 Denmark34.6%
13 Switzerland33.6%
14 Bangladesh33.3%
15 Bulgaria31.0%
16 Russian Federation30.9%
17 United Kingdom29.5%
18 Slovenia29.0%
19 United States28.9%
20 Germany24.9%
21 Czech Republic23.2%
22 New Zealand21.2%
23 Sweden19.7%
24 France16.3%
25 Norway11.1%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.659617 X +6.865
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -39091.514921 X +55342.523
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.300
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.090

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.161118 X +81.206
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.420095 X +1.466
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -11.418539 X +15.792
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169