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Question: Who usually makes /made the decisions about how to bring up your children?
Choices: "Mostly me" "Mostly my spouse/ partner" "Sometimes me/ sometimes my spouse/ partner" "We decide/ decided together" "Someone else"
Data: % of "We decide/ decided together"
Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia73.9%
2 Sweden63.0%
3 Netherlands62.6%
4 Portugal62.5%
5 Belgium61.2%
6 Argentina60.7%
7 Israel60.6%
8 Croatia60.4%
9 Canada59.5%
9 Germany59.5%
11 Denmark59.3%
12 Finland58.9%
13 Australia58.7%
14 Bulgaria58.5%
15 France58.4%
16 Spain58.3%
17 Norway57.6%
18 Iceland57.2%
19 United Kingdom56.1%
20 Ireland55.5%
21 United States54.8%
22 Mexico54.3%
23 Austria52.1%
24 Switzerland49.9%
25 Slovakia47.1%
26 Philippines46.5%
27 Czech Republic46.1%
28 Hungary45.6%
29 China43.9%
30 Turkiye42.6%
30 Venezuela42.6%
32 South Africa42.0%
33 Japan 40.5%
34 Latvia39.6%
35 Russian Federation39.5%
36 Chile38.7%
37 Taiwan37.4%
38 Lithuania35.7%
39 Republic of Korea32.4%
40 India25.6%

Note
The question is asked to those who bring/ brought up a child/ children. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 198 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.262524 X +4.282
Correlation coefficient (r)0.594
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.353

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 116075.170602 X -21705.075
Correlation coefficient (r)0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 26.869451 X +64.139
Correlation coefficient (r)0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 0.212069 X +1.571
Correlation coefficient (r)0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -14.802759 X +18.191
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092