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Question: In your household, who prepares the meals?
Choices: "Always me" "Usually me" "About equal or both together" "Usually my spouse/ partner" "Always my spouse/ partner" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States30.3%
2 United Kingdom28.6%
3 France 27.4%
4 Sweden27.2%
5 Australia18.3%
6 Germany17.3%
7 Japan7.4%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. 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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.685993 X +6.151
Correlation coefficient (r)0.564
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.318

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 86388.569293 X +33223.984
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -19.600395 X +85.968
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.417885 X +1.297
Correlation coefficient (r)0.719
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.517

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.904597 X +10.941
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001