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Question: Please indicate how important the following reasons are for you to take part in sports or games. - To meet other people
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not very important" "Not important"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic57.7%
2 Croatia53.4%
3 Philippines42.8%
4 South Africa40.5%
5 Uruguay39.3%
6 Slovenia36.1%
7 Ireland33.3%
8 Czech Republic32.7%
9 Switzerland28.0%
10 Hungary26.3%
11 Argentina25.4%
12 Austria24.2%
13 Mexico23.5%
14 Belgium23.4%
14 Cyprus23.4%
16 Chile23.3%
17 United States21.8%
18 Poland21.6%
18 Slovakia21.6%
20 Germany21.5%
21 Israel20.4%
22 Latvia20.3%
23 New Zealand19.9%
24 Bulgaria19.3%
25 Republic of Korea17.0%
26 France16.6%
27 Russian Federation16.4%
28 United Kingdom16.2%
29 Norway16.1%
30 Australia14.5%
31 Taiwan14.2%
32 Sweden12.5%
33 Finland11.7%
34 Japan 8.2%

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 = -1.837200 X +6.980
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -75866.325339 X +56639.323
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -21.980800 X +83.476
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.487876 X +1.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.880346 X +11.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008