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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 men who answer "Usually the man" "Always the man"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia13.7%
2 Canada11.9%
3 Sweden11.0%
4 United States8.3%
5 Germany7.4%
5 Italy7.4%
7 United Kingdom5.7%
8 Japan 1.7%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 8.911441 X +6.131
Correlation coefficient (r)0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 193564.820871 X +35974.626
Correlation coefficient (r)0.631
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.398

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -6.776419 X +82.231
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.594822 X +1.360
Correlation coefficient (r)0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.503980 X +11.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001