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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in a paid job?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden53.5%
2 Canada49.4%
3 Finland46.6%
4 Denmark46.1%
5 New Zealand45.1%
6 United Kingdom44.9%
7 Czech Republic43.1%
8 Norway38.3%
9 France36.8%
10 Australia36.1%
11 Ireland35.5%
12 Belgium33.1%
13 Japan 31.4%
14 United States31.1%
15 Latvia30.2%
16 Switzerland29.7%
17 Slovenia28.0%
18 Russian Federation25.5%
19 Spain24.6%
20 Cyprus22.6%
21 Germany21.0%
22 Portugal20.0%
23 Dominican Republic18.1%
24 Israel16.7%
25 Hungary16.3%
26 Republic of Korea13.8%
27 Taiwan13.7%
28 South Africa13.5%
29 Mexico11.6%
30 Bulgaria10.9%
31 Philippines7.7%

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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 3.212525 X +5.655
Correlation coefficient (r)0.694
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.482

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 117444.954218 X +8188.842
Correlation coefficient (r)0.563
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.317

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 24.857671 X +71.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.915440 X +1.954
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.859183 X +9.735
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005