The article “Housework around the World”

(USA Today, September 15, 2009) included the percentage of women who say their spouses never help with household chores for five different countries.

Country Percentage Japan 74%

France 44%

United Kingdom 40%

United States 34%

Canada 31%

a. Display the information in the accompanying table in a bar chart.

b. The article did not state how the author arrived at the given percentages. What are two questions that you would want to ask the author about how the data used to compute the percentages were collected?

c. Assuming that the data that were used to compute these percentages were collected in a reasonable way, write a few sentences describing how the five countries differ in terms of spouses helping their wives with housework.