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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 each keep our own money separate"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 12.8%
1 Sweden12.8%
3 United States12.5%
4 Germany12.0%
5 United Kingdom10.7%
6 Australia9.2%
7 Japan3.9%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer/ other answers 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 = 8.211903 X +5.885
Correlation coefficient (r)0.666
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.444

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 213922.563725 X +29953.889
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -43.841447 X +86.214
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.213214 X +1.169
Correlation coefficient (r)0.825
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.681

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -10.076838 X +11.802
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015