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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 Japan50.3%
2 Hungary49.9%
3 Slovakia46.0%
4 Mexico42.9%
5 Lithuania37.8%
6 Spain33.9%
7 France33.1%
8 Israel31.3%
9 Australia27.1%
10 United States25.9%
11 Czech Republic25.6%
12 Slovenia24.5%
13 United Kingdom22.0%
14 New Zealand21.0%
15 Austria19.4%
16 Iceland18.1%
17 Finland17.4%
18 Germany17.1%
19 Switzerland 16.6%
20 Sweden11.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.972952 X +7.681
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.772
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.596

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -124321.770972 X +80627.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.679
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.461

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -17.769180 X +85.133
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.517
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.267

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.132722 X +1.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.850776 X +10.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001