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Question: How do you and your spouse/ partner organize the income that one or both of you receive?
Choices: "I manage all the money and give my spouse/partner his/her share" "My spouse/partner manages all the money and gives me my share" "We pool all the money and each take out what we need" "We pool some of the money and keep the rest separate" "We each keep our own money separate"
Data: % of "We pool some of the money and keep the rest separate"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal55.8%
2 Sweden31.5%
3 Norway30.7%
4 Finland26.8%
5 India23.4%
6 Latvia23.1%
7 Lithuania21.7%
8 France19.8%
9 Belgium19.4%
10 Denmark19.1%
11 Canada18.3%
12 Ireland17.8%
13 Czech Republic17.4%
14 United Kingdom17.2%
15 Netherlands17.1%
16 Slovakia16.4%
17 Switzerland15.6%
18 Slovenia15.5%
19 Austria14.3%
20 Russian Federation12.4%
21 Australia12.3%
21 Iceland12.3%
23 Bulgaria11.6%
24 Germany10.9%
25 Argentina10.6%
26 Croatia10.3%
27 United States9.8%
28 South Africa8.9%
29 Japan 8.5%
30 Venezuela8.1%
31 Poland7.8%
32 Mexico7.6%
33 Hungary7.5%
34 Spain7.4%
35 Chile6.4%
36 Philippines4.7%
37 Taiwan3.9%
38 Israel3.7%
39 China3.3%
40 Republic of Korea2.7%
41 Turkiye1.4%

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.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 1.600592 X +6.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 75733.006532 X +26619.007
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 12.028208 X +76.236
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.719178 X +1.778
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 6.331799 X +9.553
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016