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Question: In your household, who shops for groceries?
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 Latvia52.8%
2 Finland51.0%
3 Chile49.9%
4 Sweden49.8%
5 Norway48.1%
6 Slovenia48.0%
7 France46.3%
8 Germany45.6%
9 Austria45.4%
10 Hungary45.3%
11 United Kingdom45.1%
12 Slovakia43.1%
13 United States42.4%
14 Israel41.4%
15 Russian Federation39.9%
15 Spain39.9%
17 Denmark39.4%
18 Portugal39.2%
19 Poland38.5%
20 Czech Republic37.6%
21 New Zealand37.2%
22 Bulgaria37.1%
23 Belgium36.9%
24 Switzerland36.2%
25 Taiwan35.1%
26 Brazil30.3%
27 Netherlands30.2%
28 Cyprus29.4%
29 Mexico29.3%
30 Ireland28.5%
31 Australia24.0%
32 Philippines23.8%
33 Japan 22.3%

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 = 1.379344 X +6.110
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 18353.423376 X +34463.345
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 5.288958 X +76.893
Correlation coefficient (r)0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.633359 X +1.902
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 16.859057 X +3.077
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131