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Question: In your household, who cares for sick family members?
Choices: "Always me" "Usually me" "About equal or both together" "Usually my spouse/ partner" "Always my spouse/ partner" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden54.5%
2 Slovenia54.4%
3 Norway53.3%
4 Poland52.3%
4 Taiwan52.3%
6 Finland52.0%
7 Russian Federation51.2%
8 Hungary51.1%
9 Denmark50.8%
10 Latvia50.3%
11 Cyprus48.9%
12 Israel48.1%
13 Netherlands47.1%
14 France45.9%
15 United States44.8%
16 Portugal44.4%
17 Bulgaria43.3%
18 Belgium42.7%
19 Spain41.5%
20 United Kingdom40.4%
21 Germany39.2%
22 Ireland39.1%
23 Philippines38.9%
24 Austria38.7%
25 Switzerland38.4%
26 Slovakia38.2%
27 New Zealand37.4%
28 Czech Republic35.9%
29 Mexico35.3%
30 Brazil34.5%
31 Chile33.2%
32 Australia29.2%
33 Japan 22.7%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. 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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.267015 X +6.100
Correlation coefficient (r)0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 30965.362446 X +28213.979
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -2.121250 X +79.879
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.018886 X +1.646
Correlation coefficient (r)0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 13.077043 X +4.053
Correlation coefficient (r)0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069