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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland30.9%
2 Austria18.8%
3 France12.8%
3 Sweden12.8%
5 United States12.5%
6 Germany12.0%
7 Norway10.8%
8 United Kingdom10.7%
9 Switzerland 10.3%
10 New Zealand10.1%
11 Denmark9.6%
12 Australia9.2%
13 Ireland7.9%
14 Latvia7.2%
15 Slovenia6.5%
16 Mexico6.2%
17 Chile6.1%
18 Slovakia6.0%
19 Netherlands5.5%
20 Israel5.4%
21 Portugal5.1%
22 Belgium4.8%
23 Japan3.9%
24 Poland3.4%
25 Czech Republic2.5%
26 Hungary1.6%
27 Spain1.5%

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 = 4.459063 X +6.401
Correlation coefficient (r)0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 155174.651358 X +33478.153
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 15.386647 X +78.766
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.327046 X +1.663
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 13.289163 X +8.834
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076