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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 "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia52.8%
2 Finland51.0%
3 Chile49.9%
4 Sweden 49.8%
5 Norway48.1%
6 Slovenia48.0%
7 France46.3%
8 Germany45.6%
9 Austria45.4%
10 Hungary45.3%
11 United Kingdom45.1%
12 Slovakia43.1%
13 United States42.4%
14 Israel41.4%
15 Spain39.9%
16 Denmark39.4%
17 Portugal39.2%
18 Poland38.5%
19 Czech Republic37.6%
20 New Zealand37.2%
21 Belgium36.9%
22 Switzerland36.2%
23 Netherlands30.2%
24 Mexico29.3%
25 Ireland28.5%
26 Australia24.0%
27 Japan22.3%

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 = 0.275766 X +6.676
Correlation coefficient (r)0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -48019.620429 X +66378.538
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -6.645353 X +82.791
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.014277 X +1.629
Correlation coefficient (r)0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 8.141045 X +6.690
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053