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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:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan53.2%
2 Russian Federation48.6%
3 Republic of Korea47.3%
4 Taiwan46.7%
5 Dominican Republic38.1%
6 Mexico35.2%
7 Latvia32.7%
8 Philippines 32.0%
9 France27.1%
10 United States26.3%
11 Israel25.7%
12 Czech Republic25.6%
13 Switzerland24.9%
14 Ireland23.6%
15 Belgium23.3%
16 New Zealand21.9%
17 Germany19.1%
18 Denmark16.5%
19 Netherlands12.0%

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 219 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -4.669481 X +8.082
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.822
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.676

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -124799.517537 X +81508.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -9.831111 X +82.245
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.722865 X +1.947
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 24.185572 X +6.009
Correlation coefficient (r)0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155