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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in leisure activities?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States3.8%
3 Germany3.5%
4 United Kingdom2.8%
5 Japan2.4%
8 France1.3%

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 = 10.413155 X +6.285
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1195981.500514 X +19643.911
Correlation coefficient (r)0.667
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.445

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -173.535457 X +86.070
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.694
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.482

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -4.804728 X +1.683
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 76.824255 X +8.190
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061