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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who gets nervous easily?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 53.2%
2 Republic of Korea47.3%
3 France27.1%
4 United States26.3%
5 Germany19.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -3.367792 X +7.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.960
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.922

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -60121.080858 X +68605.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 13.831591 X +76.894
Correlation coefficient (r)0.727
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.529

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.771635 X +2.049
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.693
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.480

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 25.213146 X +8.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326