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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 women who answer "Always the woman" "Usually the woman"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 79.2%
2 Australia67.5%
3 Italy58.5%
4 United States51.7%
5 Canada48.7%
6 Sweden46.2%
7 United Kingdom45.1%
8 Germany43.0%

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 = -2.349586 X +8.171
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -25454.177809 X +66206.491
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 10.399351 X +75.944
Correlation coefficient (r)0.615
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.378

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.531648 X +1.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.096616 X +8.810
Correlation coefficient (r)0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052