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Question: What sport do you watch on TV most frequently?
Choices: Open-ended
Data: % of Athletics (e.g. "Running" "Long-/high-jumping") "Marathon"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 France4.8%
3 Japan3.8%
4 Germany3.6%
5 United Kingdom2.0%
7 United States0.4%

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 = -6.930481 X +6.775
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -825519.719251 X +76758.176
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.807
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.651

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 106.550802 X +78.169
Correlation coefficient (r)0.748
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.560

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -1.554144 X +1.595
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -69.836230 X +12.349
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154