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Question: Which of the following statements best describes how your working hours are decided?
Choices: "Starting and finishing times are decided by my employer and I cannot change them on my own" "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Data: % of "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea61.5%
2 Australia54.6%
3 Canada54.4%
4 France 51.6%
4 United States51.6%
6 Germany49.9%
7 Japan39.3%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.229402 X +5.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 31392.975664 X +34235.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.624553 X +83.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.510275 X +2.256
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 32.144050 X -4.176
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249