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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - A pre-school child is likely to suffer if his or her mother works.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada52.3%
2 Sweden48.3%
3 United States46.2%
4 Norway44.1%
5 Ireland42.4%
5 United Kingdom42.4%
7 Japan 40.4%
8 Israel38.0%
9 Spain36.3%
10 Australia35.7%
11 Netherlands34.6%
12 New Zealand32.8%
13 Czech Republic32.2%
14 Germany28.6%
15 Slovenia24.6%
16 Poland23.1%
17 Italy17.9%
18 Austria17.7%
19 Hungary11.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 19 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.914992 X +6.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 113816.893304 X +10583.545
Correlation coefficient (r)0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 9.268735 X +77.850
Correlation coefficient (r)0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.481373 X +1.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -5.020923 X +13.768
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024