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Question: How much enjoyment do you get from reading books?
Choices: "No enjoyment" "Not much enjoyment" "Some enjoyment" "A fair amount of enjoyment" "A great amount of enjoyment" "I never do that"
Data: % of "A fair amount of enjoyment" "A great amount of enjoyment"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
3 France62.0%
4 United Kingdom61.1%
5 Germany54.1%
7 United States41.0%
8 Japan30.3%

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 2 countries.
Source
ISSP 2007

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.557330 X +5.798
Correlation coefficient (r)0.733
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.537
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1128.676959 X +53213.952
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.119576 X +81.339
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.978662 X +1.064
Correlation coefficient (r)0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -17.295724 X +18.906
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.773
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.598