Table 2.
Country-Level Characteristics
| Variable | Country | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT | BE | CH | CZ | DE | DK | ES | FR | IT | NL | SI | SE | |
| Sample size (SHARE) | 694 | 830 | 526 | 722 | 210 | 351 | 806 | 916 | 532 | 414 | 418 | 372 |
| PSI (Wave 5) in % (SHARE) | 8.7 | 15.5 | 7.1 | 14.8 | 9.8 | 9.4 | 12.1 | 21.1 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 12.3 | 8.0 |
| Intergenerational cohabitation in % (Eurostat) | 13.2 | 7.4 | 8.7 | 15.3 | 7.2 | 1.7 | 20.5 | 5.8 | 17.1 | 5.6 | 14.2 | 2.9 |
| Social trust (0–10) (EVS) | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.9 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 6.1 | 4.3 | 6.4 |
| Health expenditure in % of GDP (OECD) | 10.8 | 10.5 | 11.0 | 7.5 | 11.3 | 10.9 | 9.3 | 11.6 | 9.2 | 11.9 | 8.9 | 9.5 |
| Utilization of antidepressants (WHO) | 49.8 | 67.7 | 46.6 | 30.9 | 33.3 | 68.5 | 40.1 | 49.5 | 33.3 | 39.4 | 38.6 | 70.1 |
| Cultural acceptance suicide and euthanasia (0–10) (EVS) | 3.7 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 5.3 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
| Religious population in % (ESS) | 32.1 | 27.4 | 36.5 | 9.6 | 32.1 | 16.4 | 31.2 | 25.7 | 51.5 | 30.7 | 23.7 | 15.8 |
| Burdensomeness (0–10) (ESS) | 6.4 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 7.4 | 6.1 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 6.1 | - | 5.3 | 4.9 | 5.3 |
Notes. SHARE = Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe; PSI = passive suicide ideation; ESS = European Social Survey; EVS = European Values Study; GDP = gross domestic product; WHO = World Health Organization; OECD = Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; AT = Austria; BE = Belgium; CH = Switzerland; CZ = Czech Republic; DE = Germany; DK = Denmark; ES = Spain; FR = France; IT = Italy; NL = Netherlands; SI = Slovenia; SE = Sweden.