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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 all the money and each take out what we need"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia80.2%
2 Netherlands71.8%
3 Poland70.3%
4 Germany66.8%
5 Israel65.8%
5 Norway65.8%
7 Sweden62.5%
8 Hungary60.9%
9 United States60.7%
10 Spain58.3%
11 New Zealand58.0%
12 Ireland57.7%
13 Austria57.6%
13 Czech Republic57.6%
15 Australia57.2%
16 Italy55.1%
17 United Kingdom54.3%
18 Canada49.6%
19 Japan 19.8%

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

No data for 19 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 1.461102 X +5.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 11787.104674 X +43354.985
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -7.834580 X +85.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.848834 X +1.113
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -0.381418 X +9.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000