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Question: In your free time, do you prefer to be with other people or do you prefer to be by yourself?
Choices: "Most of time with other people" "More with other people than alone" "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Data: % of "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan49.8%
3 United States 45.0%
4 France35.2%
6 United Kingdom31.5%
8 Germany27.3%

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 = -2.211748 X +7.408
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.712
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.507
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 6068.442014 X +50361.556
Correlation coefficient (r)0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.917931 X +80.933
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -0.686746 X +1.809
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 27.840026 X -0.202
Correlation coefficient (r)0.851
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.724