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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 "Much more time" "A bit more time"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada69.8%
4 France 63.6%
5 United Kingdom62.9%
6 United States57.0%
7 Germany54.1%
8 Japan42.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.643896 X +5.087
Correlation coefficient (r)0.872
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.760

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 48869.029925 X +24344.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -5.997228 X +84.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.807800 X +1.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -10.135193 X +16.217
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127