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Question: When you and your spouse/partner make decisions about the following, who has the final say in choosing shared weekend activities?
Choices: "Mostly me" "Mostly my spouse/ partner" "Sometimes me/ sometimes my spouse/ partner" "We decide together" "Someone else"
Data: % of "We decide together"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria71.1%
2 Switzerland69.9%
3 Austria63.0%
4 United Kingdom61.9%
5 Hungary60.8%
6 Belgium60.7%
7 Australia60.3%
8 New Zealand58.5%
9 Germany57.1%
10 Spain56.6%
11 Ireland55.7%
12 Portugal55.0%
13 Poland53.0%
14 Brazil52.6%
15 Slovenia52.5%
16 Netherlands51.6%
17 Sweden51.1%
18 Denmark50.9%
19 France50.5%
20 Taiwan50.1%
21 Latvia49.2%
22 Norway47.0%
23 Finland45.4%
24 Chile45.3%
25 Russian Federation44.9%
26 United States44.3%
27 Israel42.6%
28 Czech Republic41.8%
29 Cyprus41.5%
30 Philippines34.0%
31 Slovakia33.3%
32 Japan 31.9%
33 Mexico31.2%

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

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.385871 X +6.453
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 76696.919812 X +2695.833
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 12.642515 X +72.545
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.048997 X +2.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 2.789757 X +8.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005