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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 "We decide/ decided together"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden63.0%
2 Canada59.5%
2 Germany59.5%
4 Australia58.7%
5 France 58.4%
6 United Kingdom56.1%
7 United States54.8%
8 Japan40.5%
9 Republic of Korea32.4%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.695026 X +4.709
Correlation coefficient (r)0.898
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.806

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 86582.001627 X +4124.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.806591 X +85.563
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.614296 X +0.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.882
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.778

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -29.970738 X +27.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.734
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.539