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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 71.7%
2 Japan66.2%
3 United States63.2%
4 Republic of Korea62.6%
5 Germany48.3%
6 Australia39.1%
7 United Kingdom35.0%
8 Sweden15.9%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.811456 X +7.575
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.787
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.619

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -23441.774678 X +61802.492
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.720938 X +82.690
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.454367 X +1.742
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.991601 X +8.528
Correlation coefficient (r)0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092