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Question: In your household, who does shopping for groceries?
Choices: "Always the woman" "Usually the woman" "About equal or both together" "Usually the man" "Always the man" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of women who answer "Always the woman" "Usually the woman"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 79.2%
2 Spain73.1%
3 Philippines71.3%
4 Ireland70.1%
5 Czech Republic69.1%
6 Australia67.5%
7 New Zealand61.1%
8 Netherlands60.6%
9 Russian Federation58.6%
10 Italy58.5%
11 Poland57.3%
12 Austria53.7%
13 United States51.7%
14 Hungary51.3%
15 Canada48.7%
16 Bulgaria47.8%
17 Slovenia46.4%
18 Sweden46.2%
19 United Kingdom45.1%
20 Norway43.9%
21 Germany43.0%
22 Israel42.6%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -1.253388 X +7.363
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -43300.185774 X +69540.760
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.610510 X +79.832
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.375271 X +1.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.902085 X +11.397
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006