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Question: Please indicate how important the following reasons are for you to take part in sports or games. - To compete against others
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not very important" "Not important"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States11.7%
2 United Kingdom7.2%
4 Germany4.7%
5 France4.6%
8 Japan3.0%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 5.135056 X +6.252
Correlation coefficient (r)0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 489659.336386 X +22098.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.942
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.887

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -64.430139 X +85.300
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.889
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.790

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.935712 X +1.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.492
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.242

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 38.041130 X +7.936
Correlation coefficient (r)0.421
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.177