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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia70.5%
2 Poland70.1%
3 Iceland68.7%
4 Hungary67.9%
5 Spain67.5%
6 Denmark63.7%
7 Slovakia62.0%
8 Germany61.6%
9 France60.5%
9 Netherlands60.5%
11 Belgium59.2%
12 Australia58.5%
13 United Kingdom55.1%
14 Israel55.0%
15 Switzerland54.5%
16 Czech Republic 54.1%
17 Norway52.7%
18 Canada51.9%
19 Sweden51.7%
20 Ireland50.2%
21 United States49.2%
22 Lithuania43.9%
23 Austria41.8%
24 Latvia41.2%
25 Finland37.4%
26 Chile34.8%
27 Turkiye31.3%
28 Portugal27.5%
29 Mexico27.1%
30 Republic of Korea14.7%
31 Japan11.2%

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

No data for 7 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 1.873156 X +5.807
Correlation coefficient (r)0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 36941.163579 X +26519.822
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.928262 X +80.876
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.330766 X +1.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -5.066841 X +15.798
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021