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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France57.5%
2 Ireland50.5%
3 Australia44.5%
4 United States43.1%
5 United Kingdom42.4%
6 New Zealand41.8%
7 Uruguay40.7%
8 Czech Republic38.6%
9 Sweden37.0%
10 Argentina36.1%
11 Croatia34.6%
12 Mexico34.4%
13 Cyprus33.2%
14 Philippines31.5%
15 Bulgaria30.5%
16 Chile29.6%
17 Germany29.3%
18 Austria28.1%
19 Switzerland27.9%
20 Norway27.8%
21 South Africa27.7%
22 Republic of Korea27.5%
23 Japan 27.3%
24 Belgium26.6%
25 Latvia25.8%
26 Hungary24.4%
27 Taiwan24.3%
28 Slovenia24.1%
29 Finland22.7%
30 Russian Federation20.6%
31 Dominican Republic19.9%
32 Slovakia19.3%
33 Israel16.9%
34 Poland15.6%

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.050006 X +6.197
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 86677.205359 X +10757.925
Correlation coefficient (r)0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 12.819643 X +73.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.218365 X +1.760
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.385624 X +12.342
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007