data for japan refer to respondent and spouses aged and there is no information on earnings for other household members on average their risk of falling into the bottom of the income distribution is very similar to that of standard worker households only about of mixed households are found in the lowest income quintile there are however some country differences with the shares ranging from below in australia to around in luxembourg mixed swnsw households fare slightly better in the distributional position than sw households in all countries with the exception of portugal