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where family cohabitation and support are lower than in the Southern and Eastern countries. This is apparent especially for single women, as seen in graph 4.4. In general, couples have higher incomes than single individuals, and single men have higher incomes than single women. GRAPH 4.3 GRAPH 4.4 How Do Households Manage their Income? The SHARE survey asked each household to evaluate how well it is able to make ends meet. The following graphs 4.5 and 4.6 show the fraction of households that manage their resources with some or great difficulty. As many as half the Czech couples studied reported difficulty in managing their income. An even worse situation can be seen in the Eastern countries, while respondents in Western and Nordic countries evaluated their situation much more positively. Single women have the greatest difficulties – in the 50-54 age category, 4 out of 5 Czech households consisting of single women declare difficulty with managing their income, and this situation can be seen to be worse in Eastern countries. This fact may be due to women's lower level of work activity in pre-retirement age, their lower average wages, and their resulting 33