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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time doing household work?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France57.5%
2 Ireland50.5%
3 Australia44.5%
4 United States43.1%
5 United Kingdom42.4%
6 New Zealand41.8%
7 Czech Republic38.6%
8 Sweden37.0%
9 Mexico34.4%
10 Chile29.6%
11 Germany29.3%
12 Austria28.1%
13 Switzerland27.9%
14 Norway27.8%
15 Republic of Korea27.5%
16 Japan 27.3%
17 Belgium26.6%
18 Latvia25.8%
19 Hungary24.4%
20 Slovenia24.1%
21 Finland22.7%
22 Slovakia19.3%
23 Israel16.9%
24 Poland15.6%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.463399 X +6.602
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 84035.705985 X +19941.195
Correlation coefficient (r)0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 7.008798 X +77.731
Correlation coefficient (r)0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.104811 X +1.593
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.291424 X +11.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010