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Question: Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy is it currently for your household to make ends meet?
Choices: "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly easy" "Very easy"
Data: % of "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan50.3%
2 France 33.1%
3 Australia27.1%
4 United States25.9%
5 United Kingdom22.0%
6 Germany17.1%
7 Sweden11.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.732388 X +7.482
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.862
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.743

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -53755.464701 X +66906.068
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.617913 X +79.817
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.669079 X +1.793
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.554140 X +9.521
Correlation coefficient (r)0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047