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Question: In your household, who does the household cleaning?
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 Sweden38.0%
2 Finland37.4%
3 United States35.7%
4 Denmark33.7%
5 Slovenia31.4%
6 Hungary30.6%
7 Poland30.1%
8 United Kingdom29.8%
9 Russian Federation29.0%
10 France28.9%
10 Norway28.9%
12 Taiwan26.9%
13 New Zealand26.8%
14 Germany25.9%
15 Ireland25.4%
16 Austria25.3%
17 Slovakia25.2%
18 Switzerland23.9%
19 Chile23.7%
20 Netherlands23.3%
21 Belgium22.6%
21 Spain22.6%
23 Czech Republic22.0%
24 Latvia21.4%
25 Philippines20.9%
26 Israel19.6%
27 Australia19.5%
28 Mexico15.6%
29 Bulgaria15.2%
30 Portugal14.7%
31 Japan 14.1%
32 Brazil11.6%
33 Cyprus3.9%

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 = 3.570532 X +5.780
Correlation coefficient (r)0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 124256.576145 X +11373.944
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 9.202416 X +76.732
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.119693 X +1.683
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 25.521984 X +3.489
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249