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Question: During the past 4 weeks how often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high that you could not overcome them?
Choices: "Never" "Rarely" "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Data: % of "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom28.8%
2 Australia27.7%
3 United States24.4%
4 Japan 22.6%
5 Germany22.5%
6 Sweden18.6%
7 France16.3%

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 = 0.950107 X +6.671
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 56288.157956 X +40630.336
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8.946336 X +83.699
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.583065 X +1.955
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.482
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.232

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -33.492130 X +20.927
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.553
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.306