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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland53.7%
2 Latvia53.1%
3 Slovenia51.0%
4 Argentina50.7%
4 Lithuania50.7%
6 Portugal50.5%
7 Germany49.7%
8 Sweden49.2%
9 Austria48.8%
10 Poland46.7%
11 Croatia46.6%
11 Norway46.6%
13 Spain46.3%
14 Belgium44.3%
15 Chile44.1%
16 Bulgaria43.9%
17 Iceland42.6%
18 United Kingdom42.3%
19 Hungary41.9%
20 South Africa41.8%
21 Switzerland41.7%
22 Denmark41.5%
23 Israel41.3%
23 United States41.3%
25 Czech Republic41.0%
25 France41.0%
27 Taiwan40.7%
28 Slovakia40.4%
29 Netherlands38.6%
30 Canada38.3%
31 Russian Federation38.0%
32 Australia36.5%
33 Ireland34.0%
34 Mexico33.0%
35 Republic of Korea27.3%
36 China25.6%
37 Turkiye24.8%
38 Japan 22.9%
39 Philippines18.0%
40 India17.5%
41 Venezuela13.9%

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.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 3.848997 X +4.935
Correlation coefficient (r)0.520
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.270

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 75114.897926 X +7493.649
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 15.660821 X +71.739
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.028953 X +2.084
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 13.111351 X +5.238
Correlation coefficient (r)0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071