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Question: In your household, who look after sick family members?
Choices: "Always the woman" "Usually the woman" "About equal or both together" "Usually the man" "Always the man" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden55.6%
2 Russian Federation55.2%
3 Norway54.4%
4 Bulgaria51.5%
5 Hungary50.3%
5 Philippines50.3%
7 Israel49.8%
8 Netherlands49.4%
9 Slovenia49.3%
10 Canada49.0%
11 United States48.1%
12 United Kingdom48.0%
13 Ireland46.7%
13 Poland46.7%
15 Germany45.2%
16 Italy41.6%
17 New Zealand40.4%
18 Spain37.7%
19 Austria36.8%
20 Czech Republic35.2%
21 Australia33.7%
22 Japan 19.0%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.421532 X +6.462
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 24003.032447 X +34157.448
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -22.000714 X +89.426
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.305686 X +1.072
Correlation coefficient (r)0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 4.214570 X +7.849
Correlation coefficient (r)0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008