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Question: In your household, who does shopping for groceries?
Choices: "Always the woman" "Usually the woman" "About equal or both together" "Usually the man" "Always the man" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom52.5%
2 Norway50.2%
3 Sweden49.7%
4 Germany49.3%
5 Israel45.6%
6 United States44.1%
7 Canada44.0%
8 Slovenia43.4%
9 Bulgaria42.5%
10 Austria38.4%
11 Italy36.6%
12 New Zealand36.3%
13 Poland35.7%
14 Hungary35.5%
15 Netherlands34.0%
16 Russian Federation32.3%
17 Australia31.4%
18 Czech Republic29.7%
19 Ireland28.4%
20 Spain27.9%
21 Philippines 27.7%
22 Japan18.1%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 2.859218 X +5.624
Correlation coefficient (r)0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 76770.671514 X +14885.591
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 4.826291 X +77.972
Correlation coefficient (r)0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.421889 X +1.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.070073 X +12.064
Correlation coefficient (r)0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000