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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time doing household work?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 57.5%
2 Australia44.5%
3 United States43.1%
4 United Kingdom42.4%
5 Sweden37.0%
6 Germany29.3%
7 Republic of Korea27.5%
8 Japan27.3%

Note
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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.803839 X +5.969
Correlation coefficient (r)0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 55226.392576 X +28719.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -6.879887 X +84.479
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.252741 X +0.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.731
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.534

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -16.602481 X +18.446
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154