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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 "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel26.1%
2 Slovenia23.5%
3 Poland19.7%
4 Spain18.7%
5 Finland17.5%
6 Netherlands16.6%
7 Denmark15.5%
8 Japan 15.1%
9 Belgium14.8%
10 Switzerland14.3%
11 Czech Republic13.8%
11 Portugal13.8%
13 Norway13.7%
14 Slovakia11.5%
15 France10.9%
16 Ireland10.7%
17 Mexico9.5%
18 Chile9.1%
19 Germany7.8%
20 Latvia7.7%
21 Hungary6.4%
22 Austria4.1%
23 United States3.9%
24 Australia3.2%
25 New Zealand1.9%

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 = 0.715140 X +6.725
Correlation coefficient (r)0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -24144.238788 X +48959.834
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 9.942405 X +79.188
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.240209 X +1.457
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.148656 X +13.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022