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Question: In your household, who does the laundry?
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 United States27.5%
2 Sweden19.7%
3 United Kingdom14.5%
4 France13.2%
5 Australia12.8%
6 Germany8.2%
7 Japan 7.4%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer/ other answers 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 = 2.975716 X +6.450
Correlation coefficient (r)0.480
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.230

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 120617.073531 X +35768.938
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -24.876956 X +85.314
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.749
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.561

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.988582 X +1.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 12.615907 X +11.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103