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Question: In your household, who does small repairs around the house?
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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States21.4%
2 Canada19.2%
3 United Kingdom18.5%
4 Sweden13.4%
5 Australia11.4%
6 Germany10.5%
7 Japan 9.5%
8 Italy8.8%

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 = 3.625042 X +6.368
Correlation coefficient (r)0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 129572.195169 X +33956.392
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -31.914704 X +86.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.731
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.534

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.454725 X +1.289
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 11.548411 X +10.536
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028