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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France56.5%
2 Ireland50.9%
3 United Kingdom42.9%
4 New Zealand39.9%
5 Australia38.1%
6 United States36.8%
7 Mexico34.2%
8 Canada31.3%
8 Republic of Korea31.3%
10 Germany31.0%
10 Sweden31.0%
12 Switzerland28.5%
13 Spain27.6%
14 Norway25.7%
15 Belgium22.8%
16 Czech Republic22.3%
17 Denmark20.8%
18 Latvia20.0%
19 Hungary18.8%
20 Finland17.5%
21 Japan 17.2%
22 Israel16.5%
23 Slovenia15.5%
24 Portugal15.0%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.182170 X +6.737
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 74511.510943 X +28105.951
Correlation coefficient (r)0.325
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.737127 X +79.915
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.064916 X +1.634
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.755954 X +11.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013