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Question: Please indicate how important the following reasons are for you to take part in sports or games. - For physical or mental health
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not very important" "Not important"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Germany57.3%
3 United Kingdom55.0%
4 United States54.5%
5 France52.7%
8 Japan34.9%

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 = 3.174835 X +4.957
Correlation coefficient (r)0.989
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.978
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 115103.585802 X -5911.704
Correlation coefficient (r)0.591
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.349
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -17.026500 X +89.943
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.518329 X +0.777
Correlation coefficient (r)0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -13.354931 X +17.105
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156