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Question: In your household, who shops for groceries?
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 women who answer "Always me" "Usually me"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia73.6%
2 Ireland71.7%
3 Japan70.7%
4 Netherlands62.7%
5 Switzerland60.5%
6 Czech Republic59.4%
7 Spain59.2%
8 New Zealand59.0%
9 Portugal56.5%
10 Belgium55.4%
11 Mexico54.9%
12 United States54.6%
13 Slovakia53.2%
14 Germany51.1%
15 Austria 50.8%
16 Poland49.6%
17 France49.5%
18 Denmark49.4%
19 United Kingdom49.3%
20 Norway49.0%
21 Finland43.8%
22 Chile43.0%
23 Sweden42.9%
24 Hungary42.7%
25 Slovenia41.2%
26 Israel41.1%
27 Latvia40.8%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.316436 X +6.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 88688.471632 X -223.618
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 11.831442 X +73.809
Correlation coefficient (r)0.300
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.090

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.782862 X +2.051
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.833429 X +12.025
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015