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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 some of the money and keep the rest separate"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden31.3%
2 France19.1%
3 United Kingdom17.1%
4 Australia13.7%
5 United States10.1%
6 Germany9.6%
7 Japan 6.3%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.162104 X +6.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 25259.784464 X +49700.216
Correlation coefficient (r)0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.544749 X +81.253
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.037952 X +1.432
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.637641 X +13.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006