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Question: To what extent do the following conditions prevent you from doing the free time activities you would like to do? - Lack of time
Choices: "Very much" "To a large extent" "To some extent" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "To a large extent" "To some extent"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Japan78.0%
4 United States72.2%
5 United Kingdom67.9%
6 France67.5%
8 Germany58.3%

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 = -2.843320 X +8.528
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.705
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.497

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -30531.328369 X +73652.448
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 7.651665 X +76.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.787277 X +2.091
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 27.471428 X -8.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.647
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.419