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Question: In the last 12 months, how many days of leave from your work, if any, did you take altogether (do not include maternity or sick leaves or similar types of leave)?
Choices: "None" "1-5 days" "6-10 days" "11-20 days" "21-30 days" "More than 30 days"
Data: % of "None" "1-5 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile90.4%
2 Philippines89.7%
3 South Africa78.2%
4 Dominican Republic77.7%
5 France71.7%
6 Japan 66.2%
7 United States63.2%
8 Israel63.0%
9 Argentina62.9%
9 Taiwan62.9%
11 Republic of Korea62.6%
12 Mexico59.2%
13 Austria56.7%
14 Hungary56.6%
15 New Zealand50.1%
16 Russian Federation48.8%
17 Germany48.3%
18 Uruguay46.5%
19 Ireland45.0%
20 Latvia41.7%
21 Bulgaria41.4%
22 Australia39.1%
23 United Kingdom35.0%
24 Poland33.4%
25 Croatia29.9%
26 Norway28.4%
27 Finland26.8%
28 Slovenia25.9%
29 Slovakia25.4%
30 Czech Republic24.3%
31 Belgium22.9%
32 Switzerland22.7%
33 Sweden15.9%
34 Cyprus10.2%

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.025610 X +7.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -44876.951446 X +59244.891
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -9.694611 X +82.537
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.814746 X +1.306
Correlation coefficient (r)0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.117528 X +11.019
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000