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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal79.1%
2 Belgium76.2%
3 Slovenia73.9%
4 Poland70.9%
5 Israel70.2%
6 Denmark68.6%
7 Netherlands67.5%
8 Hungary67.0%
9 Germany66.8%
10 Spain63.3%
11 Norway62.7%
12 France62.1%
13 Switzerland61.5%
14 New Zealand59.0%
15 Australia57.9%
16 Ireland56.0%
17 United Kingdom55.3%
18 Czech Republic54.1%
19 United States53.4%
20 Slovakia53.3%
21 Sweden52.7%
22 Austria50.3%
23 Latvia45.0%
24 Finland42.4%
25 Chile38.9%
26 Mexico33.3%
27 Japan 20.3%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.501281 X +6.498
Correlation coefficient (r)0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 32261.973136 X +28271.806
Correlation coefficient (r)0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 5.581370 X +76.872
Correlation coefficient (r)0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.376309 X +1.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.828285 X +11.623
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017