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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time with your friends?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States5.9%
3 France 2.9%
4 Germany2.6%
5 Canada1.8%
6 United Kingdom1.6%
9 Japan1.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 5.300504 X +6.486
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 843787.677508 X +30301.162
Correlation coefficient (r)0.910
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.828

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -118.002749 X +84.430
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.913
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.834

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 7.178195 X +1.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 98.699038 X +7.683
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376