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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time doing household work?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "Much more time" "A bit more time"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States17.1%
2 Germany16.5%
3 Italy15.9%
4 Canada15.3%
5 Japan 12.1%
6 France12.0%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 11.836552 X +4.951
Correlation coefficient (r)0.665
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.442

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 298660.991858 X +4376.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -80.869390 X +93.482
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.750
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.562

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.835677 X +1.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -40.401050 X +18.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072