Social integration
Role distribution in couples

Opinions on division of work in the household in % by age and country 2002

Definitions/comments: Percentages correspond to respondents who agreed (strongly) with one statement and who disagreed (strongly) with the other statement.

Question wording: ‘A job is all right, but what most women really want is a home and children’; ‘Men ought to do a larger share of household work than they do’.

Answer categories: ‘strongly agree’, ‘agree’, ‘neither agree nor disagree’, ‘disagree’, ‘strongly disagree’, ‘can't choose’.

Sample size: ISSP 2002: 1008–2471; weighted data.

Source: ISSP 2002.

Data for the indicator or in excel.

Description and explanation in the corresponding chapter of the Social Report 2008.