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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal79.1%
2 Belgium76.2%
2 Bulgaria76.2%
4 Slovenia73.9%
5 Poland70.9%
6 Israel70.2%
7 Denmark68.6%
8 Netherlands67.5%
9 Hungary67.0%
10 Germany66.8%
11 Spain63.3%
12 Norway62.7%
13 France62.1%
14 Switzerland61.5%
15 New Zealand59.0%
16 Australia57.9%
17 Ireland56.0%
18 United Kingdom55.3%
19 Czech Republic54.1%
20 United States53.4%
21 Slovakia53.3%
22 Sweden52.7%
23 Austria50.3%
24 Latvia45.0%
25 Russian Federation43.4%
26 Finland42.4%
27 Chile38.9%
28 Brazil37.3%
29 Mexico33.3%
30 Taiwan25.7%
31 Philippines 23.9%
32 Cyprus23.8%
33 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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.982817 X +6.146
Correlation coefficient (r)0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 42776.938761 X +17863.796
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 4.683947 X +77.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.154730 X +1.713
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 7.262986 X +8.135
Correlation coefficient (r)0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054