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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 Germany 66.8%
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 Japan20.3%

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 = 0.760473 X +6.400
Correlation coefficient (r)0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 26864.059925 X +30996.036
Correlation coefficient (r)0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.189015 X +79.823
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.161071 X +1.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.322372 X +11.868
Correlation coefficient (r)0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002