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Question: Do you think that women should work outside the home full-time, part-time or not at all under the following circumstances? - When there is a child under school age.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Stay at home"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand64.3%
2 Australia58.0%
3 Poland57.4%
4 United States57.3%
5 Slovakia53.2%
6 Japan 53.1%
7 Austria48.8%
8 Hungary46.1%
9 Chile42.8%
10 Latvia41.5%
11 Mexico41.1%
12 Portugal40.7%
13 Finland40.2%
14 Germany39.9%
15 France39.8%
16 Ireland39.1%
17 Spain37.0%
18 Czech Republic36.7%
19 Norway31.4%
20 Slovenia29.6%
21 Belgium29.1%
22 Netherlands28.6%
23 Denmark23.3%
24 Switzerland19.3%
25 Israel13.6%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.727801 X +7.513
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -58218.106778 X +69532.241
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.057222 X +82.872
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.997699 X +2.015
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.398
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.695680 X +11.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015