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Question: In your household, who prepares the meals?
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 States30.3%
2 United Kingdom28.6%
3 France27.4%
4 Sweden27.2%
5 Australia18.3%
6 Germany17.3%
7 Japan 7.4%

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 = 3.188726 X +6.177
Correlation coefficient (r)0.617
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.381

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 62019.832835 X +39702.709
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -19.065920 X +85.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.402080 X +1.278
Correlation coefficient (r)0.788
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.621

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.707125 X +14.505
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030