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Question: How often do you play cards or board games in your free time?
Choices: "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month" "Several times a year or less often" "Never"
Data: % of "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany32.1%
3 United States25.2%
4 France24.5%
5 United Kingdom20.0%
8 Japan9.8%

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 = 2.938603 X +5.917
Correlation coefficient (r)0.830
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.689

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 115900.719276 X +26783.959
Correlation coefficient (r)0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -18.756554 X +85.466
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.319288 X +1.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -9.415570 X +12.412
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064