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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 51.0%
2 Chile50.2%
3 Italy37.9%
4 Israel33.9%
5 Lithuania32.3%
6 United Kingdom28.2%
7 United States25.5%
8 Slovenia22.6%
9 Australia22.3%
10 New Zealand21.4%
11 Czech Republic19.8%
12 Austria19.0%
13 Germany18.8%
14 Switzerland18.6%
15 France17.1%
16 Finland16.3%
17 Sweden13.5%
18 Iceland13.4%
19 Norway13.1%
20 Denmark8.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.808014 X +7.619
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -116391.762483 X +80340.380
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.586
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.343

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.360414 X +82.052
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.313784 X +1.730
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.388777 X +11.024
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006