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Question: In your household, who does the laundry?
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 "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States27.5%
2 Sweden19.7%
3 New Zealand18.8%
4 Finland15.9%
5 Norway15.5%
6 Denmark15.4%
7 Latvia14.9%
8 United Kingdom14.5%
9 France13.2%
10 Spain12.9%
11 Australia12.8%
12 Israel12.5%
13 Chile12.3%
14 Poland11.6%
15 Netherlands10.4%
16 Ireland10.1%
17 Hungary10.0%
18 Switzerland8.7%
19 Mexico8.3%
20 Germany8.2%
21 Japan 7.4%
22 Slovenia7.3%
23 Austria7.2%
24 Czech Republic7.0%
25 Belgium6.0%
26 Slovakia5.7%
27 Portugal4.6%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer/ other answers 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 = 3.409291 X +6.386
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 175767.934055 X +26204.774
Correlation coefficient (r)0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.071578 X +79.738
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.519308 X +1.574
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 14.247650 X +8.306
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063