Husband - Wife Agreement, China / USA (kappa statistics)
		China (57 interviews)						USA (National Survey of Families & Households, 1988-90)
			Husband's	Wife's					Husband's	Wife's
			situation	situation					situation	situation
			(or shared)						(or shared)
Background, more objective:						Background, more objective:
		age (correlation)	0.99	0.99
	3_09 / 8_14	age 14 place	0.57	0.57			E1007/8	stepchild	0.63	0.32	Do you have any step-children (partner’s children)?
	3_11 / 8_16	party membership	0.81				E1301/42	Mother alive	0.95	0.96	Is your / your spouse's mother still living?
		education	0.62	0.67			E1310/44	Father alive	0.96	0.95	Is your / your spouse's father still living?
	3_13 / 8_18	working	0.61	0.55			E1332/46	Siblings alive (correlations)	0.92	0.9	How many living brothers and sisters do you / your spouse have?
	3_14/8_14	occupation	0.56	0.50			E1337/50	Siblings, married(correlations)	0.8	0.78	How many of your / your spouse's brothers and sisters are currently married?
	3_15 / 8_20	work unit ownership	0.57	0.53
	3_16 / 8_21	income	0.62	0.72
	4_04	height	0.83	0.48
	4_05	weight	0.84	0.81
	mean of both columns (w/out age)		0.68				mean of both columns		0.82
Background, less objective:						Background, less objective:
	2_01	home ownership	0.33				E703A	household chores	0.22		How do you feel about the fairness in your relationship in each of the following areas
	3_03	hh registration	0.29				E703B	working for pay	0.14		(note the strong attitude component in these first four items)
	7_01	marital status					E703C	spending money	0.13
	8_29	family background	0.31				E703D	child care	0.14
	8_33	chores	0.13				E704	spend time alone together	0.26		During the past month, about how often did you and your husband/wife spend time alone with each other?
	9_08	how met	0.20				E706A	disagree on household tasks	0.26		How often, if at all, in the last year have you had open disagreements about each of the following?
	9_10	daily intimacies	0.22				E706B	disagree on money	0.26
	9_11/12	love	0.06	-0.05			E706C	disagree on spending time together	0.26
	9_13/14	jealousy	0.15	0.10			E706E	disagree on having a child	0.63
	10_01 / 04	hit?	0.33	0.25			E706F	disagree on in-laws	0.30
							E706G	disagree on children	0.24
							E715	felt marriage in trouble in last 12m	0.46		During the past year, have you ever thought that your marriage might be in trouble?
							E716	felt marriage in trouble now	-0.02		Do you feel that way now?
							E718	discussed the idea of separation	-0.31		During the past year, have you and your husband/wife discussed the idea of separating
							E708	physical fight	0.35		Sometimes arguments between partners become physical. During the last year has this happened in arguments between you and your husband/wife?
							E709/E710	R hit spouse	0.28	0.20	During the past year, how many fights with your husband/wife resulted in YOU hitting, shoving or throwing things at him/her?
							E711/E712	R injured spouse	0.46	0.36	During the past year, how many fights with your husband/wife resulted in him/her hitting, shoving or throwing things at you?
	mean of both columns		0.19				mean of both columns (w/out 1st 4)		0.27
Sexual behavior:						Sexual/Violent behavior:
	9_03	age 1st sex	0.42
	9_06	knew->1st sex gap	0.20				E705	sex frequency	0.67	(corr)	About how often did you and your husband/wife have sex during the past month?
	9_07	1st sex relationship	0.44				E706D	disagreement on sex	0.25		How often, if at all, in the last year have you had open disagreements about each of the following?
	11_02 / 03	sex with others?	0.30	-0.03			E713E/E714E	sex life if separated	0.15	0.20	Think for a moment about how your sex life might be different if you separated
	11_05	last sex	0.50
	11_06	frequency	0.42
	11_22	clothes	0.14
	11_23	kissing	0.35
	11_25	genital touching	0.22	0.36
	11_27	female on top	0.18
	11_28	man behind	0.34
	11_30/29	oral	0.44	0.34
	11_31	anal
	mean of both columns		0.31				mean of both columns		0.32
Husband - Wife Agreement, China (kappa statistics)
			Husband's	Wife's
			situation	situation
			(or shared)
Background, more objective:
		education	0.62	0.67
		working	0.61	0.55
		income	0.62	0.72
		weight	0.84	0.81
	mean of both columns			0.68
Background, less objective:
		family background	0.31
		how met	0.20
		hit?	0.33	0.25
	mean of both columns			0.27
Sexual behavior:
		last sex	0.50
		frequency	0.42
		genital touching	0.22	0.36
		female on top	0.18
		oral	0.44	0.34
	mean of both columns			0.35
			file: uscompare3.xls