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Question: Thinking about elderly people who need some help in their everyday lives, such as help with grocery shopping, cleaning the house, doing the laundry etc. Who do you think should primarily provide this help?
Choices: "Family members" "Government agencies" "Non-profit organisations (e.g. charitable organisations, churches/religious organisations)" "Private providers of this kind of help"
Data: % of "Private providers of this kind of help"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France23.1%
2 Japan 15.0%
3 Canada12.4%
4 United States9.3%
5 Australia7.8%
6 Sweden5.4%
7 Germany5.1%
8 United Kingdom4.6%
9 Republic of Korea4.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.638341 X +6.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -31674.059944 X +54372.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.157462 X +81.347
Correlation coefficient (r)0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.790717 X +1.314
Correlation coefficient (r)0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.308138 X +16.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025