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Question: Thinking about elderly people who need some help in their everyday lives, such as help with grocery shopping, cleaning the house, doing the laundry etc. Who do you think should primarily provide this help?
Choices: "Family members" "Government agencies" "Non-profit organisations (e.g. charitable organisations, churches/religious organisations)" "Private providers of this kind of help"
Data: % of "Family members"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.0%
2 Japan60.3%
3 Canada59.3%
4 Germany55.8%
5 United Kingdom54.1%
8 France33.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.060277 X +6.660
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 57082.830898 X +21549.317
Correlation coefficient (r)0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.602026 X +85.445
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.009415 X +2.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 11.114678 X +4.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213