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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 "Private providers of this kind of help"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France23.1%
2 Japan15.0%
3 Canada12.4%
4 United States9.3%
7 Germany5.1%
8 United Kingdom4.6%

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 = -1.491276 X +6.800
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -75564.480991 X +61555.052
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 11.120179 X +79.995
Correlation coefficient (r)0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.731709 X +1.429
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 11.040576 X +9.036
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078