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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 51.0%
2 Italy37.9%
3 United Kingdom28.2%
4 United States25.5%
5 Australia22.3%
6 Germany18.8%
7 France17.1%
8 Sweden13.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -3.026128 X +7.647
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.877
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.769

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -56072.990214 X +66327.177
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.580
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.336

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.268680 X +80.046
Correlation coefficient (r)0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.196957 X +1.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.798
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.637

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -4.497280 X +13.617
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026