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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Croatia76.7%
2 Slovenia70.5%
3 Poland70.1%
4 Bulgaria69.5%
5 Iceland68.7%
6 Hungary67.9%
7 Spain67.5%
8 Denmark63.7%
9 Slovakia62.0%
10 Germany61.6%
11 France60.5%
11 Netherlands60.5%
13 China59.7%
14 Belgium59.2%
15 Australia58.5%
16 United Kingdom55.1%
17 Israel55.0%
18 Switzerland54.5%
19 Czech Republic54.1%
20 Norway52.7%
21 Canada51.9%
22 Sweden51.7%
23 Ireland50.2%
24 United States49.2%
25 Argentina46.3%
26 Russian Federation45.9%
27 Venezuela44.8%
28 Lithuania43.9%
29 Austria41.8%
30 Latvia41.2%
31 South Africa37.6%
32 Finland 37.4%
33 Chile34.8%
34 Turkiye31.3%
35 Taiwan29.4%
36 Portugal27.5%
37 Mexico27.1%
38 Philippines24.9%
39 India16.7%
40 Republic of Korea14.7%
41 Japan11.2%

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 = 2.129219 X +5.396
Correlation coefficient (r)0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 39543.958942 X +17440.415
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.956339 X +76.224
Correlation coefficient (r)0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.312400 X +1.832
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.104264 X +14.018
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003