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Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States531.02019
2 Canada520.02015
3 Italy513.32013/14
4 France513.02009/10
6 United Kingdom508.12014/15
7 Germany 498.42012/13
10 Japan442.02016

Note
Data are normalized to 1440 minutes per day. In other words, for those countries for which the time use does not sum up to 1440 minutes, the missing minutes are equally distributed across all activities. The range of age and the classification of activities may differ across countries: the assignment of time allocated to the activity categories defined by the OECD can only be approximated in some countries where highly detailed data are not available. Caution is thus needed in cross-country comparisons whenever the differences in minutes are not large.

Source
OECD, Time Use Database

Original source
OECD estimates based on national time use surveys. Methodological documentation on national time-use surveys used for the estimates is in Miranda V. (2011) "Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work Around the World", Miranda, V. (2011), "Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work Around the World", OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 116, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/5kghrjm8s142-en.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.007747 X +2.681
Correlation coefficient (r)0.772
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.596

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 347.534008 X -124313.772
Correlation coefficient (r)0.652
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.425

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.048099 X +105.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.003449 X -0.263
Correlation coefficient (r)0.472
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.223

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.014243 X +16.634
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015