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Question: Thinking about elderly people who need some help in their everyday lives, such as help with grocery shopping, cleaning the house, doing the laundry etc. Who do you think should primarily provide this help?
Choices: "Family members" "Government agencies" "Non-profit organisations (e.g. charitable organisations, churches/religious organisations)" "Private providers of this kind of help"
Data: % of "Family members"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.0%
2 Japan60.3%
3 Canada59.3%
4 Germany55.8%
5 United Kingdom54.1%
6 Australia51.6%
7 Republic of Korea37.0%
8 France 33.0%
9 Sweden9.9%

Note
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 = -0.780565 X +7.062
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 16889.413359 X +42567.023
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.791341 X +84.659
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.424
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.180

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.098683 X +1.551
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.543881 X +14.008
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037