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Question: Suppose you could decide on your work situation at present. Which of the following would you prefer?
Choices: "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" "A part-time job (10-29 hours per week)" "A job with less than 10 hours a week" "No paid job at all"
Data: % of "A full time job (30 hours or more per week)" among men
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France79.0%
2 United States76.3%
3 Germany75.4%
4 Japan 75.0%
5 Australia68.4%
6 Canada63.0%
7 United Kingdom62.5%
8 Sweden60.8%
9 Republic of Korea54.6%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.389132 X +6.533
Correlation coefficient (r)0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 29711.777632 X +31014.730
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.884571 X +86.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.041211 X +0.092
Correlation coefficient (r)0.617
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.381

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -25.422520 X +32.150
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143