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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 50.3%
2 France33.1%
3 Australia27.1%
4 United States25.9%
5 United Kingdom22.0%
6 Germany17.1%
7 Sweden11.6%

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 = -3.234348 X +7.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.940
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.884

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -46879.890448 X +66098.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 8.144901 X +79.466
Correlation coefficient (r)0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.504614 X +1.726
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.556426 X +11.476
Correlation coefficient (r)0.300
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.090