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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 50.3%
2 Hungary49.9%
3 Slovakia46.0%
4 Mexico42.9%
5 Lithuania37.8%
6 Spain33.9%
7 France33.1%
8 Israel31.3%
9 Australia27.1%
10 United States25.9%
11 Czech Republic25.6%
12 Slovenia24.5%
13 United Kingdom22.0%
14 New Zealand21.0%
15 Austria19.4%
16 Iceland18.1%
17 Finland17.4%
18 Germany17.1%
19 Switzerland16.6%
20 Sweden11.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.889771 X +8.008
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.876
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.767

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -123515.755949 X +80503.477
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.697
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.486

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -11.823346 X +83.844
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.207481 X +1.584
Correlation coefficient (r)0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.931452 X +12.984
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001