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Question: In your household, who does the laundry?
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 United States27.5%
2 Sweden19.7%
3 New Zealand18.8%
4 Philippines16.4%
5 Finland15.9%
6 Norway15.5%
7 Denmark15.4%
8 Taiwan15.3%
9 Latvia14.9%
10 United Kingdom14.5%
11 Russian Federation13.3%
12 France13.2%
13 Spain12.9%
14 Australia12.8%
15 Israel12.5%
16 Chile12.3%
17 Poland11.6%
18 Netherlands10.4%
19 Ireland10.1%
20 Hungary10.0%
21 Switzerland8.7%
22 Mexico8.3%
23 Germany8.2%
24 Japan 7.4%
25 Slovenia7.3%
26 Austria7.2%
27 Czech Republic7.0%
28 Belgium6.0%
29 Slovakia5.7%
30 Brazil5.3%
31 Bulgaria5.0%
32 Portugal4.6%
33 Cyprus2.0%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer/ other answers 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 = 3.893669 X +6.206
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 161649.521230 X +23228.750
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 3.508347 X +78.570
Correlation coefficient (r)0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.395075 X +1.497
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 21.512900 X +7.261
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085