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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland69.9%
2 Austria 63.0%
3 United Kingdom61.9%
4 Hungary60.8%
5 Belgium60.7%
6 Australia60.3%
7 New Zealand58.5%
8 Germany57.1%
9 Spain56.6%
10 Ireland55.7%
11 Portugal55.0%
12 Poland53.0%
13 Slovenia52.5%
14 Netherlands51.6%
15 Sweden51.1%
16 Denmark50.9%
17 France50.5%
18 Latvia49.2%
19 Norway47.0%
20 Finland45.4%
21 Chile45.3%
22 United States44.3%
23 Israel42.6%
24 Czech Republic41.8%
25 Slovakia33.3%
26 Japan31.9%
27 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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.630064 X +6.466
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 89526.557173 X +1137.878
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 15.031040 X +72.411
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.742116 X +2.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.979088 X +8.974
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004