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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ageing Soc. 2018 Jun 27;39(11):2520–2540. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18000612

Table 1.

Prevalence of household types based on husbands’ and wives’ reports of which spouse has more marital power.

Wife Report

Husband Report More Equal Less Total

More 148 389 409 946
4.1% 10.7% 11.3% 26.1%
Equal 377 1,477 441 2,295
10.4% 40.8% 12.2% 63.4%
Less 195 136 49 380
5.4% 3.8% 1.4% 10.5%
Total 720 2,002 899 3,621
19.9% 55.3% 24.8% 100.0%

Note: authors’ own calculations using data from the 2015 Mexican Health and Aging Study (n=3,621 dyads).