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Question: Please indicate how important the following reasons are for you to take part in sports or games. - To meet other people
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not very important" "Not important"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States21.8%
2 Germany21.5%
4 France16.6%
5 United Kingdom16.2%
8 Japan8.2%

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 = 4.731356 X +5.775
Correlation coefficient (r)0.894
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.799

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 255937.314711 X +9501.969
Correlation coefficient (r)0.797
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.635

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -38.041044 X +87.694
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.850
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.722

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.150175 X +1.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.584
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.341

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.467224 X +10.726
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002