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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time doing household work?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France55.9%
2 Cyprus43.4%
3 Uruguay41.5%
4 Canada41.1%
5 Germany38.0%
6 United States37.0%
7 Italy34.6%
8 Syrian Arab Republic33.7%
9 New Zealand32.9%
10 Spain30.3%
11 Bulgaria28.6%
12 Switzerland27.5%
13 Netherlands25.4%
14 Norway23.2%
15 Israel23.0%
16 Hungary22.5%
17 Philippines21.0%
18 Portugal18.9%
19 Russian Federation18.6%
20 Japan 16.8%
21 Denmark16.6%
22 Czech Republic14.9%
23 Poland13.3%
24 Bangladesh13.0%
25 Slovenia12.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.262457 X +6.129
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 55729.464113 X +25966.740
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 7.017761 X +77.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.190318 X +1.694
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.400482 X +9.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001