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Question: During the past 4 weeks how often have you felt you could not overcome your problems?
Choices: "Never" "Seldom" "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Data: % of "Often" "Very often"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy13.8%
2 Russian Federation13.2%
3 Bulgaria12.4%
4 Turkiye12.2%
5 Portugal11.2%
6 France11.1%
7 Japan 10.8%
8 South Africa10.7%
9 Croatia10.5%
10 Chile10.1%
11 Belgium9.7%
12 United Kingdom9.4%
13 Australia8.2%
14 Israel8.1%
15 Poland8.0%
15 Sweden8.0%
17 Republic of Korea7.9%
18 Norway7.8%
19 Germany7.7%
20 Spain7.1%
21 Lithuania6.7%
22 Finland6.6%
23 Philippines6.3%
24 Slovakia6.2%
25 China5.8%
25 Denmark5.8%
27 Netherlands5.2%
28 Czech Republic5.1%
29 Slovenia4.9%
30 United States4.7%
31 Taiwan4.4%
32 Switzerland2.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -12.677888 X +7.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.553
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.306

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -359745.617112 X +67489.321
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -39.591407 X +82.089
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.584667 X +1.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -1.031592 X +10.625
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000