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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom61.9%
2 Australia60.3%
3 Germany57.1%
4 Sweden51.1%
5 France 50.5%
6 United States44.3%
7 Japan31.9%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.472351 X +5.491
Correlation coefficient (r)0.650
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.423

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 33225.692316 X +35588.150
Correlation coefficient (r)0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.517910 X +82.870
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.856834 X +1.177
Correlation coefficient (r)0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -16.184512 X +18.995
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.641
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.411