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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal70.7%
2 Bulgaria65.7%
3 Slovenia62.4%
4 Argentina61.2%
5 Poland61.0%
6 Germany59.8%
7 Belgium59.3%
8 Denmark58.4%
9 Australia56.8%
10 France56.6%
11 United Kingdom55.3%
12 Israel55.1%
13 China54.2%
14 Switzerland53.7%
15 Canada53.5%
15 Spain53.5%
17 Croatia52.6%
18 Norway52.5%
19 United States52.2%
20 Iceland51.8%
21 Czech Republic51.7%
22 Latvia50.7%
23 Austria49.5%
24 Ireland49.4%
25 Sweden48.9%
26 Hungary48.5%
26 Lithuania48.5%
28 Finland 44.8%
29 South Africa44.7%
30 Chile43.9%
31 Slovakia43.7%
32 Russian Federation42.8%
32 Turkiye42.8%
34 Venezuela41.6%
35 Taiwan40.5%
36 Mexico38.0%
37 Philippines25.9%
38 Japan22.0%
39 Republic of Korea20.8%
40 Netherlands19.3%
41 India10.4%

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 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 2.370732 X +5.297
Correlation coefficient (r)0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 41154.122504 X +16981.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 7.503712 X +75.047
Correlation coefficient (r)0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.294083 X +1.820
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -3.560467 X +14.699
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006