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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time doing household work?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France55.9%
2 Canada41.1%
3 Germany38.0%
4 United States37.0%
5 Italy34.6%
6 New Zealand32.9%
7 Spain30.3%
8 Switzerland27.5%
9 Netherlands25.4%
10 Norway23.2%
11 Israel23.0%
12 Hungary22.5%
13 Portugal18.9%
14 Japan16.8%
15 Denmark16.6%
16 Czech Republic14.9%
17 Poland 13.3%
18 Slovenia12.1%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.758366 X +6.628
Correlation coefficient (r)0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 46902.346235 X +34455.814
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 4.240690 X +79.821
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.008995 X +1.583
Correlation coefficient (r)0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -3.701036 X +13.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014