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Question: How often do you attend sporting events as a spectator 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:
2 United States15.6%
3 Germany15.5%
6 United Kingdom11.5%
7 France9.8%
8 Japan3.1%

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 = 5.171629 X +5.998
Correlation coefficient (r)0.911
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.830
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 273784.468045 X +22262.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.795
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.632
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -40.432391 X +85.768
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.842
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.709
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.048170 X +1.323
Correlation coefficient (r)0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.717808 X +10.945
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009