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Question: In your household, who does the household cleaning?
Choices: "Always me" "Usually me" "About equal or both together" "Usually my spouse/ partner" "Always my spouse/ partner" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden38.0%
2 United States35.7%
3 United Kingdom29.8%
4 France28.9%
5 Germany25.9%
6 Australia19.5%
7 Japan 14.1%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.420256 X +5.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 66117.752001 X +35442.862
Correlation coefficient (r)0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -18.450024 X +86.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.677
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.458

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.146416 X +1.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.647401 X +12.777
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003