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Question: In your household, who prepares the meals?
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 States30.3%
2 Norway29.5%
3 United Kingdom28.6%
4 France27.4%
5 Sweden27.2%
6 New Zealand26.9%
7 Finland24.8%
8 Latvia24.4%
9 Denmark24.2%
10 Netherlands23.7%
11 Slovenia22.8%
12 Belgium22.3%
13 Ireland22.2%
13 Switzerland22.2%
15 Israel19.9%
16 Slovakia18.9%
17 Australia18.3%
18 Poland17.9%
19 Hungary17.5%
20 Spain17.4%
21 Czech Republic17.3%
21 Germany17.3%
23 Austria16.5%
24 Portugal15.7%
25 Chile15.4%
26 Mexico11.7%
27 Japan 7.4%

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 = 4.352713 X +5.873
Correlation coefficient (r)0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 248861.885238 X -5393.145
Correlation coefficient (r)0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 12.767666 X +77.415
Correlation coefficient (r)0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.695742 X +1.489
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 15.893187 X +6.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094