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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 women who answer "Mostly me"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea46.5%
2 United Kingdom41.0%
3 United States40.9%
4 Germany33.6%
5 France 32.9%
6 Japan32.2%
7 Canada31.6%
8 Australia31.2%
9 Sweden19.8%

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 = -3.577530 X +7.922
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.653
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.426

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -37222.845285 X +63388.906
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.817153 X +85.978
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.113472 X +2.232
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 21.435305 X +4.476
Correlation coefficient (r)0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155