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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 each keep our own money separate"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland30.9%
2 Taiwan19.8%
3 Austria18.8%
4 France12.8%
4 Sweden12.8%
6 Cyprus12.5%
6 United States12.5%
8 Brazil 12.0%
8 Germany12.0%
10 Norway10.8%
11 United Kingdom10.7%
12 Switzerland10.3%
13 New Zealand10.1%
14 Denmark9.6%
15 Australia9.2%
16 Ireland7.9%
17 Latvia7.2%
18 Slovenia6.5%
19 Mexico6.2%
20 Chile6.1%
21 Slovakia6.0%
22 Netherlands5.5%
23 Israel5.4%
24 Portugal5.1%
25 Belgium4.8%
26 Bulgaria4.1%
27 Japan3.9%
28 Poland3.4%
29 Czech Republic2.5%
30 Philippines1.7%
30 Russian Federation1.7%
32 Hungary1.6%
33 Spain1.5%

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 = 5.581333 X +6.196
Correlation coefficient (r)0.542
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.294

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 153639.071103 X +27782.239
Correlation coefficient (r)0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 23.431590 X +77.655
Correlation coefficient (r)0.386
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.149

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.072775 X +1.716
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 4.634348 X +11.758
Correlation coefficient (r)0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003