Are you the senior financial partner in your relationship?

2 March 2015

Is looking after your household's finances a shared job, or is one of a couple the senior financial partner – taking charge of decisions about insurance, energy bills, investments, debts and more?

Choose one option closest to your own circumstances:

Results

**I'm female (12535 votes)**

I’m single/not living with partner		2258 votes (18%)
We live together (not married): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much		130 votes (1%)
We live together (not married): We share the responsibility		676 votes (5%)
We live together (not married): We keep finances mostly separate		611 votes (5%)
We live together (not married): I’m in charge, they don’t know much		1377 votes (11%)
We’re married (or civil partners): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much		466 votes (4%)
We’re married (or civil partners): We share the responsibility		1838 votes (15%)
We’re married (or civil partners): We keep finances mostly separate		485 votes (4%)
We’re married (or civil partners): I’m in charge, they don’t know much		4694 votes (37%)

**I'm male (6291 votes)**

I’m single/not living with partner		889 votes (14%)
We live together (not married): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much		50 votes (1%)
We live together (not married): We share the responsibility		345 votes (5%)
We live together (not married): We keep finances mostly separate		270 votes (4%)
We live together (not married): I’m in charge, they don’t know much		632 votes (10%)
We’re married (or civil partners): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much		177 votes (3%)
We’re married (or civil partners): We share the responsibility		1144 votes (18%)
We’re married (or civil partners): We keep finances mostly separate		334 votes (5%)
We’re married (or civil partners): I’m in charge, they don’t know much		2450 votes (39%)

18,826 votes received.

We try to use technology to limit voting to one per person. Occasionally, this may erroneously block a few people's votes (eg, from shared offices). Apologies for that.

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