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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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel63.4%
2 Italy63.3%
3 Switzerland61.3%
4 Slovenia58.4%
5 France57.6%
6 Spain53.5%
7 Japan 53.3%
8 Ireland53.2%
9 Germany52.4%
10 Canada46.2%
11 Norway45.4%
12 Poland42.3%
13 United States39.3%
14 Hungary38.1%
15 Australia29.6%
16 Latvia29.1%
17 New Zealand24.0%
18 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 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.214921 X +6.694
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 43993.694575 X +28518.531
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 10.572281 X +75.888
Correlation coefficient (r)0.492
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.242

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.378161 X +1.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -8.923071 X +16.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087