Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of the dependent variable, couples’ division of labour, from the 2012 ISSP survey
| Region/country | n | % in category, weighted frequencies | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional | Neotraditional | Her second shift | Modern | ||
| Western Europe | 3388 | 14.2 | 30.9 | 16.8 | 38.1 |
| Austria | 354 | 12.0 | 35.9 | 19.7 | 32.5 |
| Belgium | 643 | 7.2 | 28.9 | 22.3 | 41.7 |
| France | 717 | 8.3 | 23.4 | 21.0 | 47.3 |
| Germany | 548 | 19.7 | 35.6 | 11.3 | 33.4 |
| Ireland | 372 | 24.6 | 22.9 | 16.8 | 35.7 |
| Netherlands | 331 | 16.9 | 36.2 | 10.0 | 36.7 |
| Switzerland | 423 | 19.2 | 39.7 | 9.7 | 31.4 |
| Northern Europe | 1578 | 6.1 | 18.0 | 20.3 | 55.5 |
| Finland | 396 | 8.4 | 13.8 | 21.1 | 56.7 |
| Iceland | 368 | 7.9 | 28.0 | 18.8 | 45.4 |
| Norway | 487 | 2.9 | 14.4 | 21.6 | 61.2 |
| Sweden | 327 | 5.8 | 16.8 | 19.9 | 57.5 |
| Australia | 491 | 18.1 | 32.3 | 16.5 | 33.1 |
| North America | 577 | 19.9 | 15.3 | 17.4 | 47.4 |
| Canada | 170 | 12.5 | 15.7 | 18.0 | 53.8 |
| USA | 407 | 22.9 | 15.2 | 17.1 | 44.9 |
| Southern Europe | 1492 | 13.3 | 20.4 | 39.1 | 27.2 |
| Croatia | 274 | 10.3 | 17.0 | 46.7 | 26.1 |
| Portugal | 196 | 10.5 | 14.4 | 47.1 | 27.6 |
| Slovenia | 312 | 11.2 | 14.4 | 58.3 | 16.0 |
| Spain | 710 | 16.2 | 25.9 | 25.7 | 32.3 |
| Eastern Europe | 2210 | 19.0 | 19.5 | 34.7 | 26.9 |
| Czech Republic | 590 | 17.1 | 24.9 | 35.5 | 22.6 |
| Hungary | 241 | 23.2 | 12.8 | 44.0 | 20.1 |
| Latvia | 300 | 19.3 | 14.5 | 33.7 | 28.6 |
| Lithuania | 221 | 18.7 | 20.1 | 32.6 | 28.6 |
| Poland | 298 | 13.6 | 24.8 | 24.2 | 37.4 |
| Russia | 246 | 30.2 | 13.8 | 29.6 | 26.3 |
| Slovak Republic | 314 | 15.1 | 17.8 | 43.3 | 23.8 |
| South Africa | 337 | 24.5 | 14.2 | 26.7 | 34.6 |
| Asia | 2093 | 29.1 | 21.2 | 19.1 | 30.7 |
| India | 465 | 20.3 | 0.3 | 22.1 | 57.4a |
| Israel | 388 | 15.2 | 35.6 | 22.4 | 26.8 |
| Japan | 356 | 28.9 | 46.4 | 12.9 | 11.8 |
| Philippines | 493 | 42.2 | 12.5 | 14.9 | 30.4 |
| South Korea | 391 | 35.3 | 17.5 | 23.9 | 23.3 |
| Central/South America | 1325 | 34.5 | 13.6 | 20.4 | 31.5 |
| Argentina | 265 | 37.6 | 25.2 | 17.2 | 20.0 |
| Chile | 331 | 45.6 | 13.9 | 21.8 | 18.7 |
| Mexico | 458 | 32.3 | 11.6 | 18.3 | 37.8 |
| Venezuela | 271 | 18.3 | 5.6 | 24.9 | 51.2 |
| Total | 13,491 | 19.0 | 22.1 | 23.5 | 35.5 |
aOne-third of men with a child in the household said their partner spent an hour or less caring for other family members. This distorts the descriptive statistics, but is less consequential in the multivariate analyses that include a control for respondent’s gender (see also Sect. 5.1)