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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 "Much more time" "A bit more time"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 France72.3%
4 United Kingdom64.6%
5 United States64.5%
7 Japan57.7%
8 Germany52.2%

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 = 0.850556 X +6.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 32152.152667 X +32635.070
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.759169 X +82.375
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.123090 X +0.228
Correlation coefficient (r)0.799
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.638

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.776349 X +8.581
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005