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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France56.5%
2 Ireland50.9%
3 United Kingdom42.9%
4 New Zealand39.9%
5 Australia38.1%
6 United States36.8%
7 Mexico34.2%
8 Canada31.3%
8 Republic of Korea31.3%
10 Germany31.0%
10 Sweden31.0%
12 Switzerland28.5%
13 Spain27.6%
14 Taiwan26.2%
15 Bulgaria26.1%
16 Norway25.7%
17 Dominican Republic25.5%
18 South Africa23.9%
19 Belgium22.8%
20 Cyprus22.3%
20 Czech Republic22.3%
22 Denmark20.8%
23 Latvia20.0%
24 Hungary18.8%
25 Finland17.5%
26 Japan 17.2%
27 Russian Federation16.8%
28 Israel16.5%
29 Slovenia15.5%
30 Portugal15.0%
31 Philippines14.1%

Note
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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 1.149954 X +6.269
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 106595.008230 X +12968.041
Correlation coefficient (r)0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 13.366683 X +75.116
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.546376 X +1.834
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.327662 X +11.485
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005