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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 "21-30 days" "More than 30 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden65.6%
2 Finland58.0%
3 Norway55.1%
4 Switzerland55.0%
5 Belgium44.0%
6 United Kingdom38.7%
7 Poland36.5%
8 Russian Federation34.6%
9 Latvia33.8%
10 Hungary33.7%
11 Croatia31.9%
12 Germany30.8%
13 Czech Republic28.2%
14 Slovenia27.2%
15 Australia25.3%
16 Austria24.7%
17 New Zealand24.0%
18 Ireland22.7%
19 Slovakia22.3%
20 Uruguay21.4%
21 Cyprus21.3%
22 France20.3%
23 Mexico20.1%
24 Bulgaria15.6%
25 Argentina13.8%
26 United States12.2%
27 Taiwan11.5%
28 Israel10.7%
29 Dominican Republic7.6%
30 Republic of Korea7.1%
31 Japan 6.9%
32 South Africa5.8%
33 Philippines4.4%
34 Chile2.7%

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 = 1.963525 X +6.020
Correlation coefficient (r)0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 77937.599588 X +17803.620
Correlation coefficient (r)0.471
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.222

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 12.019127 X +74.815
Correlation coefficient (r)0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.799595 X +1.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.904232 X +10.205
Correlation coefficient (r)0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009