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Question: In your household, who does shopping for groceries?
Choices: "Always the woman" "Usually the woman" "About equal or both together" "Usually the man" "Always the man" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom52.5%
2 Norway50.2%
3 Sweden49.7%
4 Germany49.3%
5 Israel45.6%
6 United States44.1%
7 Canada44.0%
8 Slovenia43.4%
9 Austria38.4%
10 Italy36.6%
11 New Zealand36.3%
12 Poland35.7%
13 Hungary35.5%
14 Netherlands34.0%
15 Australia31.4%
16 Czech Republic29.7%
17 Ireland28.4%
18 Spain27.9%
19 Japan 18.1%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 19 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 2.124308 X +5.975
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 68380.465258 X +24063.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -1.612539 X +81.594
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.107498 X +1.192
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -0.250709 X +9.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000