Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of this study was: to gain a better knowledge of patterns of financial management within households and to investigate the significance of different allocative systems for individual members of households to investigate the relationship between patterns of allocation of money and other dimensions in the lives of husbands and wives to contribute to relevant policy debates.

Main Topics:

Age, sex, education and employment data for all household members. Amounts and sources of income. Transfers of money within the household. Responsibility for spending. Housekeeping money. Personal spending money. Debts and savings. Ownership of consumer durables. Attitudes to money and control of finances. Marital happiness. Decision making and relative power of husband and wife.

Simple random sample

selected mainly from age-sex registers held by health centres.

Face-to-face interview