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Question: Who usually makes /made the decisions about how to bring up your children?
Choices: "Mostly me" "Mostly my spouse/ partner" "Sometimes me/ sometimes my spouse/ partner" "We decide/ decided together" "Someone else"
Data: % of women who answer "Mostly me"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland66.7%
2 Lithuania50.3%
3 Chile48.8%
4 South Africa48.1%
5 Republic of Korea46.5%
6 Taiwan46.4%
7 Latvia44.2%
8 Venezuela43.9%
9 Russian Federation42.8%
10 United Kingdom41.0%
11 United States40.9%
12 Hungary40.3%
13 Czech Republic36.2%
14 Argentina35.7%
15 Ireland35.4%
16 Switzerland34.3%
17 Germany33.6%
18 Iceland33.4%
19 Portugal33.2%
20 France32.9%
21 Austria32.8%
21 Israel32.8%
23 Japan 32.2%
24 Netherlands31.9%
25 Canada31.6%
26 Belgium31.3%
27 Australia31.2%
28 Turkiye30.4%
29 Slovakia30.0%
30 Finland29.8%
31 India29.4%
32 Norway28.8%
33 China27.9%
34 Spain27.8%
35 Mexico27.0%
36 Bulgaria26.6%
37 Croatia25.2%
38 Denmark24.0%
38 Philippines24.0%
40 Sweden19.8%
41 Slovenia19.5%

Note
The question is asked to those who bring/ brought up a child/ children. 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 = -1.166191 X +6.882
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -54190.688520 X +56454.736
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -15.577097 X +83.390
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.682569 X +1.908
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 19.063970 X +3.898
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125