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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom52.5%
2 Sweden49.7%
3 Germany49.3%
4 United States44.1%
5 Canada44.0%
6 Italy36.6%
7 Australia31.4%
8 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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.738721 X +5.764
Correlation coefficient (r)0.742
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.551

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 33391.274392 X +38615.452
Correlation coefficient (r)0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -11.488691 X +86.340
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.697385 X +1.210
Correlation coefficient (r)0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -7.063031 X +15.038
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058