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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan51.0%
2 Italy37.9%
3 United Kingdom28.2%
4 United States25.5%
5 Australia22.3%
6 Germany18.8%
7 France 17.1%
8 Sweden13.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.722289 X +7.428
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.846
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.716

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -63009.773081 X +67110.118
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.524
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.275

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 5.301323 X +80.317
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.379950 X +1.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.855
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.731

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -3.641117 X +10.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018