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Question: When you and your spouse/partner make decisions about the following, who has the final say in choosing shared weekend activities?
Choices: "Mostly me" "Mostly my spouse/ partner" "Sometimes me/ sometimes my spouse/ partner" "We decide together" "Someone else"
Data: % of "We decide together"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany59.8%
2 Australia56.8%
3 France56.6%
4 United Kingdom55.3%
5 Canada53.5%
6 United States52.2%
7 Sweden48.9%
8 Japan 22.0%
9 Republic of Korea20.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.872521 X +5.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.869
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.755

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 47862.269398 X +28668.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.636
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.404

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.558954 X +85.422
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.471271 X +0.790
Correlation coefficient (r)0.785
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.616

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -28.173006 X +28.110
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.740
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.548