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Question: In your household, who shops for groceries?
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 Sweden49.8%
2 France46.3%
3 Germany45.6%
4 United Kingdom45.1%
5 United States42.4%
6 Australia24.0%
7 Japan 22.3%

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 = 2.032771 X +6.089
Correlation coefficient (r)0.533
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.284

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 11823.002539 X +48915.375
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.067802 X +85.999
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.541
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.293

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.838990 X +1.261
Correlation coefficient (r)0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.243205 X +14.899
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031