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Question: How difficult would it be for you to take an hour or two off during working hours, to take care of personal or family matters?
Choices: "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult" "Somewhat difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand80.2%
2 Sweden78.6%
3 Ireland77.6%
4 Denmark75.9%
5 Switzerland75.6%
6 United Kingdom73.2%
7 Australia72.7%
8 Finland72.6%
9 Dominican Republic71.3%
10 United States71.1%
11 Taiwan69.6%
12 Norway69.2%
13 Portugal68.7%
14 Slovenia65.6%
15 France65.2%
16 Canada63.4%
17 Republic of Korea61.8%
18 Japan 61.7%
18 Mexico61.7%
20 Hungary61.1%
21 Israel57.9%
22 Philippines57.6%
23 Germany56.6%
24 Spain53.5%
25 Czech Republic52.3%
26 Cyprus51.8%
26 South Africa51.8%
28 Latvia51.3%
29 Belgium49.6%
30 Russian Federation46.0%
31 Bulgaria42.2%

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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 3.439353 X +4.400
Correlation coefficient (r)0.594
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.353

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 152963.086283 X -54984.734
Correlation coefficient (r)0.586
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.343

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 26.418152 X +62.061
Correlation coefficient (r)0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.185965 X +1.803
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.864763 X +14.917
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019